According to Pacific Scoop, a special group, consisting of approximately 12 experts, was established to assist the Least Developed Country parties to the United Nations Framework to the Convention on Climate Change in preparing and implementing their national climate change adaptation programme of work. The chair of the group is from Tuvalu - the island nation endeavoring towards a new legally binding agreement to operationalise the Green Climate Fund so Small Islands Developing States can start to receive funds to help carry out adaptation work on the ground.