Strategies for vulnerability and adaptation assessment in the context of national communications, the 2nd AOSIS workshop on climate change negotiations Apia, Samoa 31 July - 3 August 2000

Under the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the signatory countries to the Convention are obligated to make periodic National Communications to the Conference of the Parties. Part of National Communications involves reporting on the country’s vulnerability and capacity to adapt to possible changes in climate. International funding mechanisms, such as the Global Environment Facility (GEF), serve to financially support developing countries in building the capacity to enable them to conduct assessments of climate change vulnerability and adaptation (V&A) assessments as a basis for National Communications.