Ministers will consider its findings as they work on a cross-government strategy on adaptation and infrastructure.

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An international experts workshop will contribute to this effort, bring together a select group of natural and social scientists, and indigenous peoples, from across the circumpolar region to enhance collaborative indigenous-scientific work on global change impacts, monitoring and adaptation, and thus advance thinking on the emerging paradigm of knowledge co-production.

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The African Development Bank has also become an implementing partner for the Adaptation Fund, and has considerably expanded work under the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

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Because the sounds of the most closely related apes matched most closely in the analysis of the laughter, the researchers believe the work is proof of laughter's shared evolutionary origin, followed by adaptation to its form in the species we see today.

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The agreement builds on more than two years of collaboration between the organizations, in which WiGig Alliance developed the groundbreaking WiGig technology specifications including MAC-PHY and Protocol Adaptation Layers (PALs) and Wi-Fi Alliance initiated work to develop an interoperability certification for 60GHz products.

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We will work together to develop, disseminate, and transfer, as appropriate, technologies that advance adaptation efforts.

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They committed to work together this year toward a successful outcome in Durban and to implement the Cancun agreements, including on transparency, adaptation, technology, finance, and forest protection.

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