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Supporting national level action Vertical integration of adaptation

Vertical Integration: A Key Element of Inclusive, Effective NAP Processes

With the Paris Agreement set to enter into force just before COP 22, attention is turning to how to implement the historic agreement: how do we achieve its commitments and how do we ramp up ambition over time? For the first time, we have a global goal for climate change adaptation that is explicitly linked […]

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Making the Business Case for NAPs: How Kenya is Tracking Adaptation Finance

“If you cannot outline the business case, there will be no adaptation.” This was the message that Christiana Figueres, outgoing Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), shared at the Adaptation Futures 2016 conference in the Netherlands in May, and one that adaptation planners should take seriously. As climate change […]

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Fifteen years of climate change adaptation planning: What have we learned so far?

This op-ed was originally published in the Daily Star (Bangladesh) and is republished here with permission. The original article is available via the Daily Star’s website. The NAP Global Network participated in NAP Expo 2016, hosting a side event on budgeting for NAP implementation. Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), at its […]

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Brazil Launches National Adaptation Plan: Interview with Karen Silverwood-Cope

Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment launched its first National Adaptation Plan (NAP) earlier this month. The NAP puts forward cross-sector adaptation strategies to address the wide range of risks that climate change poses in the expansive country, which has the world’s fifth largest land mass. “Brazil is a big country and we do have great […]

Supporting national level action

Financing Adaptation and Resilience through Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Fuel Duty

There is a troubling gap between the existing amount available in finance for climate change adaptation and its actual costs. Though methodologies for estimating adaptation costs are widely debated, the World Bank estimates that adaptation will cost countries tens of billions USD this century, and UNEP’s 2016 Adaptation Finance Gap Update predicts that these costs could escalate to be hundreds […]

Supporting national level action Vertical integration of adaptation

Addressing Key Questions in the Technical Examination Process on Adaptation: Vertical Integration and Monitoring & Evaluation in the NAP process

The Paris Agreement’s inclusion of an adaptation goal has raised adaptation’s profile in the international arena. Recognizing this, parties to COP 21 established a Technical Examination Process on Adaptation (TEP-A)—complementing a pre-existing process for mitigation—as a contribution to enhanced action prior to 2020. The first meetings under this process—known as the Technical Expert Meeting on […]

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Frequently Asked Questions: The NAP Global Network

Please find below the following questions and answers related to the NAP Global Network: A. General information on the Network i) What is the NAP Global Network? ii) What are the NAP Global Network’s activities? iii) When and how was the NAP Global Network established? iv) Who can participate in the Network’s activities? v) How does […]