1. Under the Cancun Adaptation Framework, which was adopted as part of the Cancun Agreements at the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP), the COP established a work programme to consider approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change1 (hereinafter referred to as the work programme on loss and damage), and it requested the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) to agree on activities to be undertaken under that work programme2 and to make recommendations on loss and damage to the COP for consideration at its eighteenth session.3
1. Under the Cancun Adaptation Framework, which was adopted as part of the Cancun Agreements at the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP), the COP established a work programme to consider approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change (hereinafter referred to as the work programme on loss and damage), and it requested the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) to agree on activities to be undertaken under that work programme and to make recommendations on loss and damage to the COP for consideration at its eighteenth session.