Draft supplementary guidance for voluntary use by Parties in communicating information in accordance with the possible elements of an adaptation communication

This supplementary guidance provides an overview of the guidelines for adaptation communications (adcoms) and related arrangements, and suggestions for applying the guidelines and for benefiting from the links between adcoms and other adaptation-related reporting arrangements under the Convention and the Paris Agreement. 

In order to facilitate preparation of adcoms, this guidance provides an overview of the following:

• Existing guidance related to adcoms (including to the adcoms themselves, potential vehicle documents, the registry and the contribution to the global stocktake); 
• Possible information synergies between adcoms and the vehicle documents, which provide opportunities to minimize reporting burden; 
• Information related to each of the elements identified in the annex to decision 9/CMA.1, including possible definitions and understandings, as well as resources that could facilitate preparing information for each element; 
• Adcoms submitted so far, approaches used by Parties and challenges and lessons learned during preparation.