The workshop was conceived in response to the growing numbers of adaptation tools being developed and piloted by development agencies and others to tackle climate-related risks, now and in the future. Evidence at the COP12 meeting in 2006 suggested that little formal coordination had been undertaken to date.
The workshop therefore represented an initial effort to bring together contacts working on and interested in adaptation tools to compare notes, particularly in the context of developing common approaches related to G8, OECD and UNFCCC processes.
