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The Adaptation Gap Report 2018 - Executive Summary
(2018)The Adaptation Gap Reports focus on providing policy-relevant information to support such efforts. The focus of the 2018 report is dual: The first part examines the gaps that exist in a number of areas that are central to ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow - Climate Adaptation Failure Puts World at Risk
(2022-11)Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity, The international community must urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a transformation of energy, industry, transport, food systems, financial systems ... -
Annex 4.1. Updated Evidence on the Estimated Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation - The Adaptation Gap Report 2018
(2018)This annex describes material prepared to support Chapter 4 of the Adaptation Gap Report 2018 -
Annex chapter 3. An Exploratory Analysis of the Suitability of Indicators to Track Progress in Adaptation - The Adaptation Gap Report 2018
(2018)This annex describes material prepared to support Chapter 3 of the Adaptation Gap Report 2018 (hereafter ARG2018). It takes up the question of whether there are feasible and robust indicators, based on the aggregation of ... -
Chapter 1. Setting the Scene - Adaptation Gap Report 2020
(2021-01)In the lead-up to the Global Stocktake in 2023, the AGR aims to address three important questions: What are we doing today to adapt? To what extent are we currently reducing climate risks? To what extent will our adaptation ... -
Chapter 1. Setting the Scene - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)The Adaptation Gap Report 2021 – its sixth edition – is part of a new set of reports launched in 2020 in the run up to the 2023 Global Stocktake. It is structured in three parts: Part I (chapters 3 to 5) assesses national ... -
Chapter 2. Framing the Adaptation Gap Report - Adaptation Gap Report 2020
(2021)This chapter highlights some of the basic elements of the longer-term approach in terms of assessing adaptation in the context of climate risks. First, climate risks are discussed in the context of the interlinkages between ... -
Chapter 2. Framing the Adaptation Gap Report - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)The Adaptation Gap Report AGR2021 builds on the framing first introduced in the 2020 edition of the report to further advance knowledge on adaptation progress around the world. It focuses on adaptation progress at the ... -
Chapter 3. Assessing Global Progress on Adaptation Planning - Adaptation Gap Report 2020
(2021-01)This chapter seeks to assess how much progress has been made by 196 Parties to the UNFCCC, of which 189 are also Parties to the Paris Agreement, in constructing such plans and strategies. It further endeavours to assess ... -
Chapter 3. Global progress on adaptation planning - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)Applying the same methodology as the AGR2020, this chapter looks at the overall number of national, subnational and sectoral adaptation strategies, plans and laws. Five criteria are used to shed light on the extent to which ... -
Chapter 4. Global progress on adaptation finance - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter provides an update on the adaptation finance gap for developing countries (defined as the non-Annex I countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]), as reported in previous ... -
Chapter 4. Global Progress on Financing for Adaptation - Adaptation Gap Report 2020
(2021-01)In addition to climate finance under the UNFCCC, and to domestic public and private financing of adaptation within countries, this chapter also discusses how sustainable finance efforts can contribute to adaptation. Section ... -
Chapter 5. Global progress on adaptation implementation - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)The objective of this chapter is to provide a global assessment of the implementation of adaptation, with a particular focus on developing countries. It provides essential information that would not be apparent from solely ... -
Chapter 5. Progress in Implementing Adaptation: Insights from Project Proposals and Scientific Literature - Adaptation Gap Report 2020
(2021)This chapter looks at implementation of adaptation by addressing the question: are adaptation actions taking place? It provides one of the first global accounts of implemented adaptation actions, including which hazards ... -
Chapter 6. Emerging consequences of COVID-19 on adaptation planning and finance - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter aims to synthesize the literature that describes how COVID-19 has impacted country-level “adaptive capacity” (see the glossary for a definition and discussion below) and identifies emerging opportunities for ... -
Chapter 6. Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation - Adaptation Gap Report 2020
(2021)Focusing on the national level, this chapter explores progress in uptake and implementation of NbS for adaptation. It first introduces NbS for adaptation and the basis for increasing interest in them, before exploring the ... -
Chapter 7. Outlook on global progress - Adaptation Gap Report 2021: The Gathering Storm - Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World
(2021-11)This chapter synthesizes findings from chapters 3 to 6 of this report, with the aim of providing an overview of the status of global progress on adaptation (section 7.1). It also offers an outlook for future developments ... -
Executive Summary — Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow – Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk
(2022-11)The report finds that global efforts in adaptation planning, financing and implementation are increasing incrementally. However, they are not keeping pace with increasing climate risks. Yes, over 80 per cent of countries ... -
Online Annexes – Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow – Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk
(2022-11)These annexes include: Annex 2.A: Data sources used to assess the status of national adaptation planning worldwide and the presence of quantified targets; Annex 2.B: Examples of quantified targets; Annex 2.C: Inclusiveness; ... -
Technical Annex - Diving Deep: Finance, Ocean Pollution and Coastal Resilience
(2022-03)This technical annex workbook has four sheets: i) How to use this resource; ii) Definitions; iii) Coastal resilience: Infrastructure and nature-based solutions; and iv) waste prevention and management.
