this is not intended to be an exhaustive list of strategies and reports the point here is to illustrate that a multitude of different strategies and reporting channels already exists in many countries this can help to clarify what elements may usefully be included in a leds versus what may be redundant of other exercises and thus left out to avoid duplication for example while many existing national climate change strategies may also contain forwardlooking components they may not adequately integrate economic development with climate change so this could be a core objective of a leds moreover several of the existing national climate change strategies prepared to date only plan forward for the shortterm ie up to