1. FUTURE PROGRAMME OF WORK ON CLIMATE
CHANGE ADAPTATION
Catherine Gamper
Environment, Transitions & Resilience Division
OECD Environment Directorate
4th Meeting of the OECD Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation
(TFCCA)
7-8 March 2022

2. Joint Working Party on Agriculture
and Environment
Climate Change Experts
Group
Working Party on Integrating
Environmental
and Economic Policies
Working Party on Climate,
Investment & Development
Working Party on Environmental
Performance
Working Party on Biodiversity,
Water & Ecosystems
OECD Task Force on
Climate Change
Adaptation
Environment
Policy
Committee
Climate Change Adaptation at the OECD

3. Feb 2021 Dec 2021 April 2022 By Dec 2022
Jan-Mar 22
Environment Policy
Committee (EPOC)
High-level
discussion
(resulting in
scoping 3 papers)
EPOC
Discussion of
scoping papers and
direction of future
work (resulting in
guidance for WPs)
Technical
discussion and
further scoping in
working parties &
TFCCA
Review and
approval of draft
Programme of Work
and Budget (PWB)
2023-24
Preparation of
OECD-wide PWB
by SG and
transmission to
Council for
approval
The Process of the OECD Programme of Work and Budget
EPOC EPOC
Subsidi
aries
EPOC Council

4. Strategic guidance on adaptation by EPOC
 Understanding climate variability and extreme
events/risks (SLR, extreme precipitation and floods,
droughts and wildfires)
 Country guidance on risk management and resilience
 Ensure policy coherence between disaster risk
reduction and adaptation
 Financing adaptation (address maladaptation and risks
of stranded assets)
 Continued work on measuring progress on adaptation
 Integration of adaptation planning in wider economic
policies

5. Strategic guidance on adaptation from Working
Parties (WPCID & WPBWE)
 Understanding climate risks:
 Drought, water scarcity , SLR (transboundary coastal protection)
 Interrelated risks (food security, carbon in soil, ecosystems)
 Role of exposure in the impacts of CC

6. Strategic guidance on adaptation from Working
Parties (WPCID & WPBWE)
 Understanding climate risks:
 Drought, water scarcity , SLR (transboundary coastal protection)
 Interrelated risks (food security, carbon in soil, ecosystems)
 Role of exposure in the impacts of CC
OECD value add!

7. Strategic guidance on adaptation from Working
Parties (WPCID & WPBWE)
 Understanding climate risks:
 Drought, water scarcity , SLR (transboundary coastal
protection)
 Interrelated risks (food security, carbon in soil, ecosystems)
 Role of exposure in the impacts of CC
 Adaptation measures:
 NbS continued: nexus on land-use and agriculture,
adaptation-mitigation as well as biodiversity synergies, eco-
DRR;
 Local adaptation
 Trade & Adaptation: international supply chains

8. Strategic guidance on adaptation from Working
Parties (WPCID & WPBWE)
 Adaptation measurement:
 Building on lessons learned/scale up;
 Focus on measurable targets;
 Measuring effectiveness;
 Adaptation finance:
 Measure adaptation-aligned finance
 Development of guidance on adaptation-aligned finance

9. Strategic guidance on adaptation from Working
Parties (WPCID & WPBWE)
Cross-cutting issues to consider:
 Strengthen links with development work (DAC)
 Consider development of OECD Policy
Recommendations/Instruments (part of a formal
subsidiary body)
 Consider links to environmental justice,
digitalisation

10. Potential Adaptation priorities 2023-24
Past work focused on:
• Wildfires
• Costal risks
• Mountains
• Sea-level rise
Understand Impacts of Climate
Change
Brings together evidence on social, economic
and environmental impacts of climate-related
hazards as a basis for policy action
Future work:
“Understanding Impacts”
- What types of risk should we focus
on next?
- What angle to distributional impact
analysis/environmental justice
question is most relevant for you?
- What interlinkages are relevant
(food, ecosystems, agriculture)?

11. Potential Adaptation projects 2020-21
Past work focused on:
Developing project-based policy
guidance;
Promoting policy guidance as part
of international discussions (e.g.
G20)
Set Adaptation objectives
Supports the formulation of adaptation policy
objectives, setting appropriate targets and
standards
Future work:
“Codifying good practice”
- How strong is the current knowledge base in
terms of identifying good practices for
implementing adaptation? Are there any
significant gaps?
- How best could the OECD contribute to codifying
and disseminating good practices on adaptation?
- If there were to be an OECD Recommendation on
climate change, how best could adaptation be
incorporated within it?

12. Potential Adaptation projects 2023-24
Past work focused on:
• NbS for water-related risks
• NbS for adaptation-mitigation linkages
• Climate-resilient infrastructure
Priority measures:
Develops policy guidelines and provides
country support in the implementation
of adaptation measures
Future work:
“Adaptation Measures”
- Work on NbS: what focus would you
like it to have?
- What sectors would you be most
interested in us looking at? (e.g.
health, energy, urban?)
- What would be interesting to look at in
terms of the role of adaptation in
international trade/supply chain mgt?
- What issues to explore when looking
at local adaptation?

13. Potential Adaptation projects 2023-24
Discussions to be organised in
separate sessions!

14. Potential Adaptation projects 2023-24: break out groups
Break out group: “Understanding Impacts”
- What types of risk should we focus on next?
- What angle in the distributional impact analysis
would be most relevant for you? What are the links
that could be explored with environmental justice?
- What interlinkages are relevant (food, ecosystems,
agriculture)?
Break out group: “Adaptation Measures”
- Continuing work Nature-based Solutions: what focus would you like
it to have? (adaptation-mitigation linkages; linkages to biodiversity; land
use/agriculture; eco-DRR)
- For sector-specific work, what sectors would you be most interested
in looking at? (e.g. health, energy, urban?)
- What would be interesting to explore in the realm of adaptation in
trade and supply chain management?
- What issues to explore when looking at local adaptation?
Break out group “Codifying good practice”
- How strong is the current knowledge base in terms of
identifying good practices for implementing adaptation? Are
there any significant gaps?
- How best could the OECD contribute to codifying and
disseminating good practices on adaptation?
- If there were to be an OECD Recommendation on climate
change, how best could adaptation be incorporated within it?

15. Thank you