Emilie Beauchamp is a senior researcher in IIED's Strategy and Learning group UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab attends the Climate and Development Ministerial Meeting earlier this month. The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021 (Photo: Pippa Fowles/No 10 Downing Street via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) A year ago, the Adaptation Committee was one of the first UNFCCC-constituted bodies to harness virtual meetings. Meeting virtually is not easy, yet the committee’s 2019-21 workplan requires it to advance several crucial outputs ahead of the 2021 United Nations climate change conference (COP26). These include long-expected recommendations on modalities for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), on supplementary guidance for Adaptation Communications, and on the preparation phase of the Global Stocktake (GST).