The first workshop of the Glasgow – Sharm el-Sheikh (GlaSS) work programme on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) opens today.
And it’s about time too.
It’s been seven long years since the GGA formed part of the Paris Agreement. Yet only now are we discussing the means to realise its aims.
But better late than never. If that is, the urgency is recognized. If it’s a learning process rather than a negotiation in an obscure language. And if it’s inclusive and transparent.
First and foremost, ECO insists that people must be at the centre of the Global Goal. After all, what we are working towards is reducing their vulnerability and increasing their resilience and capacity.
We will be looking around the workshop today to see if there is a diversity of people represented—youth, women, disabled, poor, Indigenous Peoples and the marginalised impacted by the climate disasters—reflecting the diversity of vulnerabilities and the many and various routes to resilience.