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Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts

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Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts

The Conference of the Parties,Recalling decisions 3/CP.18, 2/CP.19, 2/CP.20, 1/CP.21 and 2/CP.21 and the Paris Agreement,Noting with appreciation the significant progress in advancing the implementation of the initial two-year workplan of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts, and the mandates ensuing from decision 1/CP.21, paragraphs 48 and 49,Noting that while significant progress has been made in laying the foundation for work on loss and damage, owing to the late nomination of members, work remains to be carried out,Appreciating the work of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism in developing the indicative framework for its five-year rolling workplan,Recalling the areas of cooperation and facilitation to enhance understanding, action and support as referred to in Article 8, paragraph 4, of the Paris Agreement,Recognizing the catalytic and pioneering nature of the Warsaw International Mechanism in promoting the implementation of approaches to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change in a comprehensive, integrated and coherent manner,
1.Welcomes the report of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts,1 and progress made in implementing its initial two-year workplan, including in enhancing understanding, action and support, in particular the establishment of the expert group on non-economic losses, the technical expert group on comprehensive risk management and transformational approaches and the task force on displacement, and in outreach and information sharing;1FCCC/SB/2016/3.
2.Requests the Executive Committee to continue to implement activities from its initial two-year workplan;22FCCC/SB/2014/4, annex II.
3.Approves the indicative framework for the five-year rolling workplan of the Executive Committee3 as the basis for developing corresponding activities, starting at the first meeting of the Executive Committee in 2017, taking into account relevant inputs provided by Parties and relevant organizations;3Contained in document FCCC/SB/2016/3, annex I.
4.Requests the Executive Committee to include in its five-year rolling workplan a strategic workstream to guide the implementation of the Warsaw International Mechanism’s function of enhancing action and support, including finance, technology and capacity-building, to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, as provided for in decision 2/CP.19;
5.Invites Parties and relevant organizations to submit views and relevant inputs on possible activities under each strategic workstream as contained in the indicative framework for the five-year rolling workplan of the Executive Committee, with a focus on workstreams (e), (f) and (g), by 28 February 2017;44Parties should submit their views via the submission portal at .Observers and other stakeholders should e-mail their submissions to .
6.Requests the Executive Committee to include in its five-year rolling workplan relevant work for advancing the operationalization of the mandates ensuing from decision 1/CP.21, paragraphs 48 and 49;
7.Notes that the Executive Committee will evaluate progress towards implementing its five-year rolling workplan on an interim basis, as appropriate;
8.Invites constituted bodies under the Convention, as appropriate, as those bodies undertake their work, to continue or to initiate, as appropriate, the integration of efforts to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change in particularly vulnerable developing countries, vulnerable populations and the ecosystems that they depend on;
9.Encourages Parties to incorporate or continue to incorporate the consideration of extreme events and slow onset events, non-economic losses, displacement, migration and human mobility, and comprehensive risk management into relevant planning and action, as appropriate, and to encourage bilateral and multilateral entities to support such efforts;
10.Invites United Nations and other relevant institutions, specialized agencies and entities, the research community and the private sector, as appropriate, to strengthen cooperation and collaboration, including through partnerships, with the Executive Committee on topics relevant to addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including extreme events and slow onset events;
11.Reiterates its encouragement to Parties to make available sufficient resources for the successful and timely implementation of the work of the Executive Committee.