Bonn climate change conference

The 36th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), the fifteenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), the seventeenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) will take place concurrently from 14 to 25 May.

Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention at its fifteenth session

This session will address the following issues regarding enhanced action on adaptation:

• Risk  management  and  risk  reduction  strategies,  including  risk sharing and transfer mechanisms such as insurance;
• Disaster  reduction strategies and means to address loss and damage  associated  with  climate  change  impacts  in  developing  countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change;
• Economic diversification to build resilience;


Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice at its thirty-sixth session

• This session will address the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change