Things were certainly better in the adaptation session of yesterday's LCA, with three concrete proposals from major groups:

1. The EU outlined possible elements of a Copenhagen deal which included integration of adaptation into national decision making and planning, the scaling up of resources for adaptation, and support for the least developed countries when developing their own adaptation plans and programmes.

2. The African Group presented an African regional adaptations implementation initiative, which would include: a network of African centers of excellence, a three year pilot phase of adaptation activities (implemented cooperatively, of course) and a pilot project of stand-alone adaptation activities.

3. And AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) suggested an adaptation framework which would contain mechanisms to ensure timely flows of new and additional resources to address both short and long term adaptation needs, to enhance national capacity to incorporate adaptation issues into national planning, to build up a resistance to the anticipated effects of global warming, and to adapt to unavoidable climate impacts.

With concrete proposals like these, headway is inevitable. Thanks to the ENB (Earth News Bulletin) for providing such detailed info on the day's work.

Rhiya