ALM UNDP

Jessica Troni, Knowledge Management Officer, UNDP Fiji

Ms. Angelika Planitz, Sub-Regional Coordinator for the Pacific, UNISDR

Mr. Gabor Vereczi, Regional Technical Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific, UNDP

Mr. Richard Warrick University of Sunshine Coast

Mr. Jian Liu, Climate Change Adaptation Unit, UNEP, The Global Adaptation Network (GAN)

Description:

Collaboration among Regional Centres and Networks with a view to facilitating the development, dissemination and application of methods and tools, data and observations, and climate scenarios

Introduction
The Nairobi work programme on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change (NWP) is a five-year initiative (2005-2010) under the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) to the UNFCCC.1 Its objective is to assist all Parties to the Convention, particularly developing countries including LDCs and SIDS to (1) improve their understanding and assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation; and (2) to make informed decisions on practical adaptation options and measures to respond to climate change on a sound scientific, technical and socio-economic basis, taking into account current and future climate change and variability.

At its 28th Session (June 2008), the SBSTA mandated the secretariat to organize, under the guidance of the Chair of the SBSTA and by its 32nd Session (June 2010), a technical workshop with representatives from Parties, relevant organizations, regional centres and networks, and communities, and experts on how regional centres and networks undertaking work relevant to climate change could collaborate, with a view to:

• Providing information on the use of different methods and tools for various users and types of assessment;
• Enabling users to share information on different methods and tools, including details on their application, limitations and usefulness for different types of tasks and users;
• Facilitating a dialogue between users and developers of methods and tools to encourage the development and application of more demand- and stakeholder-driven methods and tools;
• Enabling users to exchange good practices and lessons learned in accessing and applying data;
• Promoting a dialogue between the providers and users of data in order for providers to better meet the needs of different users;
• Disseminating good practices and lessons learned in the development and application of methods and tools;
• Providing information on available climate models, scenarios and downscaled projections, including on their application, limitations and usefulness for different purposes and geographical areas;
• Facilitating feedback between users and providers of climate models, scenarios and downscaled projections, in order to enable or enhance the development and to improve the usability of regional climate models and scenarios