1. Click to edit Master title style Five-year work programme on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change New Zealand presentation at SBSTA22 21 May 2005

2. Click to edit Master title style Broad objective? Improve understanding of the challenges faced in adapting to climate change and improve understanding of what countries and communities are already doing in their response to the impacts of climate change

3. Click to edit Master title style Scope? Importance of a broad scope that encompasses all elements of paragraph 23 of decision 1/CP10 Should be some clear aims and intermediate outputs Should add value to work already going on

4. Click to edit Master title style Structure? Structure around broad themes that are reflected throughout the work programme e.g. –Benefits of early decision-making and proactive adaptation –Links and synergies of adaptation with other development-related decisions –Options to separate natural from human-induced climatic changes within an adaptation and development context

5. Click to edit Master title style Major milestones? agree conclusions relating to governance arrangements that facilitate adaptation agree on approaches that help Parties define national critical limits for climate change and climate change impacts request Parties to include in their next national communications views on global, regional and national critical thresholds and vulnerabilities to climate change impacts, and extent of or limits to adaptive capacity SBSTA should aim to:

6. Click to edit Master title style Review and development? Needs and interests will evolve Within broad scope, decide detailed priorities for sessions on a shorter time frames of one to two years Build in a mid-programme review to ensure on track to meet the needs and aims identified by Parties