The Glasgow-Sharm el Sheikh (GlaSS) work programme, a series of eight workshops over two years from COP26 in 2021 to COP28 in 2023, will hold its 8^th and final workshop at the end of September 2023 before its findings and decisions on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) are shared at COP28.

The GGA is an aspirational goal established under the Paris Agreement amidst concerns about the accelerating pace of climate change and the inappropriate scale and speed of current adaptation efforts; the GlaSS work programme works to elaborate a framework for operationalisation and monitoring of this goal.

This 3-day event will bring together Party and negotiating bloc representatives for an open dialogue. They will consider the progress made in workshops so far and the priorities for the discussion and decision ahead, to prepare the foundations for productive convergence and consensus in the remaining workshop.

The event will welcome a number of speakers before turning to a series of in-depth discussions. Parties will have the opportunity to identify the shared questions they still have and where they see routes for convergence both within the GGA process and with other international climate mechanisms. Attention will then be turned to the more technical questions of the composition of the GGA framework and the targets and indicators that will support effective action and monitoring.

• To enhance effective participation within the GlaSS work programme and to identify priorities and convergences in the negotiations and associated processes concerning the GGA.
• To provide time and opportunity for extended discussion of the technical elements of the GGA process, facilitating maximum progress in the 8^th and final workshop.