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Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC (2010 Update) Coordinated UN Action on Climate Change Following the December 2007 adoption of the Bali Action Plan and a series of meetings, including the UN General Assembly, the UN Secretary General in May 2008, through the UN Chief Executives Board for Coordination and its High Level Committee on Programmes, initiated a process to ensure a coherent and coordinated UN system response to the challenge of climate change. In the first instance, this involved the identification of five focus areas: 1. Adaptation; 2. Capacity-building; 3. Finance (mitigation, adaptation); 4. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD); and 5. Technology Transfer; and four cross-cutting areas of UN system activity: 1. Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning; 2. Supporting global, regional and national action; 3. Public awareness; and 4. Climate-neutral UN; with one or more of the UN system agencies and programmes assigned convening/facilitating roles for developing a coordinated UN-wide approach for each. Most activities in the cross-cutting area of ‘science, assessment, monitoring and early warning’ (‘climate knowledge’) will, of necessity, rely heavily on observational support from the GCOS. World Climate Conference-3 107 and Ocean Obs’09 108 The Conference Statement and Ministerial Declaration of the August-September 2009 World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) underscore the essential role of a fully implemented GCOS in underpinning the future Global Framework for Climate Services through which all countries will be enabled to more effectively use climate prediction and information for decision-making in order to better manage climate related risks and opportunities in support of adaptation to climate variability and change. Implementation of this Framework over the next few years should significantly enhance the prospects for full implementation of this IP-10. Another key development bearing on the updating of IP-04 was the Ocean Obs’09 Conference held in Venice in September 2009. The planning for Ocean Obs’09 proceeded in parallel with the updating of GCOS-92 and the conclusions from the conference are incorporated in this Plan. The 2004-2008 Progress Report As requested by SBSTA 23 in 2005, the GCOS Steering Committee and Secretariat compiled a comprehensive report on progress with the implementation of IP-04 for consideration by SBSTA 30 in June 2009. The Progress Report on the Implementation of the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC 2004-2008 109 provided both a general overview of progress with implementation of GCOS and a specific assessment of achievements under each of the cross-cutting and domain-based Actions set down in IP-04. The Progress Report was based, inter alia, on: • Detailed assessments from each of the GCOS Panels and WMO, GOOS and GTOS Secretariats; 107 See http://www.wmo.int/wcc3 for more information. 108 See http://www.oceanobs09.net for more information. 109 GCOS (2009): Progress Report on the Implementation of the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC 2004-2008, GCOS-129 (WMO/TD-No. 1489; GOOS-173; GTOS-70), August 2009, http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/Publications/gcos-129.pdf 140
Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC (2010 Update) • The report of the October 2007 Sydney Workshop on Future Climate Change Research and Observations (GCOS-117); • National reports 110 on progress against the 2007 Reporting Guidelines provided to the UNFCCC Secretariat up to March 2009; • Reports from a number of GCOS National Coordinators and Focal Points and other IP-04 Agents for Implementation; • The December 2008 CEOS Report to SBSTA 111 on progress with implementation of the spacebased components of IP-04. The outcome of SBSTA 30 consideration of the 2004-2008 Progress Report included an invitation to the GCOS Steering Committee and Secretariat to produce an update of 2004 Plan which would reflect both the progress since 2004 and the new developments, requirements and perspectives that emerged during the preparation of the Progress Report. 110 Such reports were provided by: Australia, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Denmark, European Community, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States; All reports are available at http://unfccc.int/methods_and_science/research_and_systematic_observations/items/4499.php , and a synthesis of the reports, prepared by the GCOS Secretariat, is available at http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/Publications/gcos-130.pdf 111 UNFCCC (2008): Updated report by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites on progress by space agencies involved in global observations in implementing actions in response to the Global Climate Observing System implementation plan, FCCC/SBSTA/2008/MISC.11, http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2008/sbsta/eng/misc11.pdf 141
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