Annex
Modalities, procedures and guidelines for the transparency framework for action and support referred to in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement
IV. Information related to climate change impacts and adaptation under Article 7 of the Paris Agreement
D. Adaptation strategies, policies, plans, goals and actions to integrate adaptation into national policies and strategies.
109. Each Party should provide the following information, as appropriate:
(a) Implementation of adaptation actions in accordance with the global goal for adaptation, as set out in Article 7, paragraph 1, of the Paris Agreement;
(b) Adaptation goals, actions, objectives, undertakings, efforts, plans (e.g. national adaptation plans and subnational plans), strategies, policies, priorities (e.g. priority sectors, priority regions or integrated plans for coastal management, water and agriculture), programmes and efforts to build resilience;
(c) How best available science, gender perspectives and indigenous, traditional and local knowledge are integrated into adaptation;
(d) Development priorities related to climate change adaptation and impacts;
(e) Any adaptation actions and/or economic diversification plans leading to mitigation co-benefits;
(f) Efforts to integrate climate change into development efforts, plans, policies and programming, including related capacity-building activities;
(g) Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation;
(h) Stakeholder involvement, including subnational, community-level and private sector plans, priorities, actions and programmes.
VII. Technical Expert Review
I. Technical expert review team and institutional arrangements
2. Composition
175. Technical experts shall have recognized competence in the areas to be reviewed.
176. The secretariat shall compose a technical review team in such a way that the collective skills and competencies of the technical expert review teams correspond to the information to be reviewed, as specified in chapter VII.B above, and that the teams include experts for each significant GHG inventory sector, mitigation and support, cooperative approaches and internationally transferred mitigation outcomes under Article 6, and LULUCF, as relevant.
177. At least one team member should be fluent in the language of the Party under review, to the extent possible.
178. The secretariat shall select the members of the technical expert review team with a view to achieving a balance between experts from developed and developing country Parties. The secretariat shall ensure geographical and gender balance among the technical review experts, to the extent possible. When selecting members of the technical expert review team for centralized group reviews of biennial transparency reports from the LDCs and SIDS, the secretariat shall strive to include technical experts from the LDCs and SIDS.
179. Two successive reviews of a Party’s submission cannot be performed by the same technical expert review team.
180. Every effort should be made to select lead reviewers who have participated in reviews under the Convention or Article 13 of the Paris Agreement.
181. The technical expert review team shall include two lead reviewers, one from a developed country Party and another from a developing country Party.
182. Experts from developing country Parties participating in the technical expert review team shall be funded according to the existing procedures for participation in UNFCCC activities.
