1. Group 1 Issues of highest importance Foci for discussion/action
Increase focus on emerging sectors and regions
Urbanization, health, vulnerable populations, human-ecosystem interactions …
Develop projects illustrating interactions between (1) process of adaptation, (2) knowledge needed for action, and (3) earth system models
Foci for discussion/action
Develop guidance for modeling and experiments to facilitate inter-comparisons within the framework of the new scenario development (including RCP)
Develop proposals with multiple institutions that integrate top-down/bottom-up, across sectors

3. Ripe for progress
Longer term development
Essentials for science/ assessment
Extremes, severe climate change
Model/tool intercomparison
IAV in the multiple stressors
Rates of change
Scales for adaptation
Avoided impacts
Linking adaptation/mitigation/development
Geoengineering assessment
Essential for applications and decision making
Making data/models available
Different modes for product delivery
Assessing the grey literature
Adaptation in complex systems
Institutional aspects

4. WORKING GROUP 4
Need to better characterize the properties of the IAV community and activities and interactions with the broad community
Recognize cross scale issues especially linking regional scales with local and global (context vs scale; critical resource)
Exploration of methodological framework
Use of Intercomparison of impact assessment
Recognize the explicit nature of decision making among IAV community
Need to outline the iterative process between scenarios

5. Key Research Questions
I – Integration across sectors – e.g., agriculture, water
I – Characterizing full range of uncertainty
- Beyond climate models
A – Interactions of disaster risk reduction, extreme events, and climate change
- linkages, trends, attribution
A – Mapping decision and decision support processes for integrated resource management
- characterizing decisions, entry points, multiple
values, evaluating outcomes
A – Knowledge pathways – management and information services in support of adaptation
A&V – Agency – adaptive capacity; political, collective actions at different levels of analysis; households to regions and nations
A&V – How to incorporate varying socioeconomic data, models, studies into IAM storylines and models?

6. Towards an IAV Coordinating Organization
Organize around ~4 key themes
Social/ecological hotspots with foci/sectors in matrix form
Scenarios – both storylines development and use
Data and models – model intercomparisons, meta-analyses, integration of quantitative and qualitative data
Decisions, decision-making and decision support.
Developing and sustaining a network, nodes/centers including developing countries
- Take it seriously!
E.g., appropriate policies, practices, impediments, nodes, to ensure effectiveness/longevity of IAV research and applications network
- workshops, training, workforce development, entrainment of young scientists
Funding!
Roles/interactions with WCIRP, IHDP, TGICA,
Foundations, World Bank -- Issues of mainstreaming