Tag: UNFCCC

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From Country Priorities to Global Signals: A step-by-step guide to adaptation indicators for national monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems

Countries left the Bonn Climate Change Conference last week without an agreement on issues related to the global goal on adaptation. This stalemate was partly due to disagreement among countries over the next steps and the composition of a task force to improve the Belém Adaptation Indicators (BAIs), the 59 voluntary indicators adopted at the […]

Scaling up Climate Resilience in Benin: The launch of the country’s first National Adaptation Plan

View the story Scaling up Climate Resilience in Benin: The launch of the country’s first National Adaptation Plan By Patrick Guerdat and Cesar Henrique ArraisVideos and interviews by William Appolinaire TCHOKI and Fulbert ADJIMEHOSSOU Thomas KPONOU, a teacher from the Aguégués lakeside community (located between Porto-Novo and Cotonou, Benin’s two largest cities) remembers the historic […]

NAP Global Network at COP 25: Overview

Experts from the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network Secretariat participated the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 25) alongside governments, researchers, private sector actors and members of civil society to discuss advancing national adaptation planning and action.

NAP Global Network at COP 25

Governments from around the world are meeting in Madrid, Spain from December 2 to 13 at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 25) to discuss climate policy. Experts from the NAP Global Network will take part in discussions, share research and convene events at the conference

NAP Global Network at NAP Expo 2019

From April 8 to 12, the NAP Global Network Secretariat was in Songdo, Republic of Korea for NAP Expo 2019. NAP Expo is a global forum organized by the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to promote peer learning and foster exchanges among stakeholders in […]

NAP Global Network at COP 23

See also: Multimedia on NAP Process Lessons and Experiences | COP 23 Governments from around the world are meeting in Bonn, Germany from November 6-17 at the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference to discuss implementation of the Paris Agreement. The NAP Global Network will be playing an active role at COP 23 to highlight successes so […]

Peer learning and exchange Gender

Gender in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: A pilot review of climate change adaptation planning documents from 15 countries

The linkages between gender and climate change adaptation have been recognized as a key issue under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since the early 2000s. The 2015 Paris Agreement increased the ambition on gender, referring to gender equality and women’s empowerment and calling for action on climate change to be gender-responsive. […]

Peer learning and exchange

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 […]