NAP Global Network at COP 28

Where: Canadian Pavilion
When: Friday, December 1, 4–5 p.m. Dubai time
Host: NAP Global Network

The Paris Agreement acknowledges the need for adaptation action to be gender-responsive, recognizing gender differences in adaptation needs and capacities, ensuring equitable participation and influence in decision making, and achieving gender-equitable distribution of benefits resulting from adaptation investments, including finance

This session will provide an update on the progress made in mainstreaming gender considerations into NAP processes globally. It will also showcase the efforts of three francophone countries supported by the NAP Global Network—Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, and Senegal—to address gender inequalities through adaptation action.

Government representatives from the three countries will participate in a panel discussion to highlight progress, discuss challenges, and share learning from the process. This event will be held in French, with simultaneous interpretation in English.

Where: Madagascar Pavilion
When: Friday, December 1, 11 a.m. – 12  p.m. Dubai time
Host: NAP Global Network

A strategic approach to communications is critical for governments to further engage stakeholders and civil society in the implementation of their NAPs.

This session will feature the experiences of three francophone countries—Central African Republic, Haiti, and Madagascar—in disseminating and promoting their NAP documents by using creative and strategic approaches to craft engaging key messages and target audiences through diverse channels. This event will be held in French.

When: Saturday, December 2, 1:15–2:30 p.m. Dubai time (UTC +4)
Where: The Commonwealth Pavilion
Host: NAP Global Network, UNDP

The Paris Agreement emphasizes learning and ambition through initiatives like the Global Stocktake and the Global Goal on Adaptation. These should bolster national monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems that influence global objectives and align with national plans like NAPs and NDCs. However, learning is frequently sidelined in policy and MEL cycles. Active efforts are required to foster learning in national policies, and sharing notable examples is crucial.

This panel will bring together governments from Commonwealth countries—including Belize and Fiji—to examine what governments and other actors have learned from implementing climate adaptation in the context of NAP processes, the factors that drove or contributed to learning, and challenges in knowledge.

When: Sunday, December 3, 9:45–10:45 a.m. Dubai time (UTC +4)
Where: U.S. Center
Hosts: NAP Global Network, U.S. Bureau of Conflict & Stabilization Operations, U.S. Department of Defense

Many of the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected countries are in regions most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

This event will examine opportunities for aligning peacebuilding and adaptation objectives, highlighting perspectives from countries and development agencies, like the United States Agency for International Development, who are confronting these twin challenges on the ground. Discussions will focus on moving beyond rhetoric, speaking to the practicalities of integrating conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding into adaptation efforts.

When: Sunday, December 3, 3:30–4:30 p.m. Dubai Time (UTC +4)
Where: Vietnam Pavilion
Hosts: NAP Global Network, Viet Nam Department of Climate Change

As a medium- to long-term response to the climate crisis and to enhance adaptation action, many countries are developing and implementing NAPs and designing monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems. However, despite the urgent need to see results and understand the progress made on adaptation, few countries currently track and report on their NAP implementation. Progress reporting is a critical element of the NAP process that helps facilitate both its regular tracking and the continuous enhancement of adaptation planning and implementation.

This event will launch a new NAP Global Network report that explores various approaches to NAP implementation, assessment, and reporting by countries worldwide. Discussions will shed light on the different systems and contexts in which progress reporting has been made to inspire and inform stakeholders about the importance of assessing progress, highlighting experiences from Vietnam, Tonga, and the United Kingdom.

Read IISD Negotiation Bulletin coverage of this side event.

When: Wednesday, December 6, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Dubai time (UTC +4)
Where: Multilevel Action and Urbanisation Pavilion
Hosts: Under2 Coalition, Regions4, NAP Global Network, and the European Committee of the Regions, in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, the Race to Zero, Race to Resilience, and the Local Governments and Municipal Authority

This event aims to demonstrate the role of states, regions, cities and other non-state actors in driving progress on climate change mitigation and adaptation and enabling the integration of global agendas at the local and regional levels, particularly regarding nature-based solutions, vulnerable communities’ inclusion, and urban–rural connections.

The session will also highlight experiences of multilevel governance and collaborations among local, regional, and national governments on the definition and implementation of climate agendas such as NDCs and NAPs.

Read IISD Negotiation Bulletin coverage of this side event.

When: Thursday, December 7, 9 a.m.–7 p.m. Dubai time (UTC +4)

Where: Sofitel Dubai Downtown

Host: International Institute for Environment and Development

As economic disparities rooted in colonial histories persist, powerful companies in sectors like finance and energy still dictate the course of climate action.

Development & Climate Days 2023 will examine how actors across governments, the private sector, philanthropies, civil society organizations, businesses, and academia can be held accountable to take positive steps within their organizations to address climate impacts and reduce the risk and vulnerability of those most affected by the climate crisis. Discussions will address uncomfortable truths, tackle big questions, seek effective and practical answers, and work together on fair solutions that leave no one behind.

The NAP Global Network will host the session called How Can Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Adaptation Advance Accountability When Operationalizing the Global Goal on Adaptation? This session will explore approaches that a different set of actors are using to get involved and increase accountability through the MEL system for NAP processes, and how these can be leveraged, adopted, and scaled up when operationalizing the GGA following COP 28.

When: Sunday, December 10, 16:25–17:25 Dubai time (UTC +4)
Where: 5th Capacity-building Hub
Hosts: Paris Committee on Capacity-building, NAP Global Network
Livestreaming: bit.ly/cop28-capacity-building

Capacity building at the sub-national and local levels is critical to achieving a NAP process aligned with development priorities and plans and effectively channelling resources to the people, places, and systems that need them most.

This event will examine the importance of sub-national and local-level engagement in national adaptation policies and plans, discussing how capacities and networks can be enhanced to enable vertical integration in decision-making and ensure inclusive and gender-responsive adaptation action.

The session will also highlight good practices on how capacity building at sub-national and local levels can be scaled up at the national level. It will also identify country support needs to advance capacity building for vertical integration and opportunities for technical and financial support to strengthen these efforts.

When: Sunday, December 10, 10:40–11:40 Dubai time (UTC +4)
Where: 5th Capacity-building Hub, PCCB4NAPs Day
Hosts: Adaptation Committee, PCCB, NAP Global Network, Regions4
Livestreaming: bit.ly/cop28-capacity-building

Strengthening countries’ efforts on MEL for NAP processes with the tools and capacity to improve their national systems offers an important avenue for better assessing and enhancing the effectiveness of their adaptation actions.

This event will discuss the findings of a recently published technical paper by the Adaptation Committee on Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation at the National and Subnational Levels, as well as introduce the work-in-progress toolkit for MEL of National Adaptation Planning Processes being prepared by the NAP Global Network and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Adaptation Committee. Through interactive modalities, audience members will have the opportunity to provide their feedback on both studies.

When: Monday, December 11, 3–4:30 p.m. Dubai time (UTC +4)
Where: Side Event Room 9
Hosts: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit; IISD/NAP Global Network, BBC Media Action, University of Twente, Green Growth Institute, Urban Climate Change Research Network/Columbia University

Extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, rising sea levels, rising temperatures, and increasing water scarcity, endanger previous development successes and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. NAP processes are an internationally recognized instrument built on climate risk analyses to identify, prioritize, implement, and track progress toward adaptation actions to reduce vulnerability to climate risks.

This event will highlight best practices and identify gaps toward effective, inclusive, and ambitious NAP processes. It aims to provide new perspectives to support least developed countries and Small Island Developing States in preparing their plans, including their operational and financial components.

Read IISD Negotiation Bulletin coverage of this side event.

When: Tuesday, December 12, 12:30–1:30 p.m. Dubai time (UTC +4)
Where: NDC Partnership Pavilion
Hosts: NAP Global Network (IISD), World Resources Institute, Government of Honduras

To scale up adaptation action, countries must make intentional strategic links between locally led adaptation and the ambitions set out for adaptation at the national level. This event will explore how countries use multilevel governance to link sub-national and national adaptation action in NDCs and NAPs.

The session will highlight approaches to establishing effective local–national linkages in adaptation planning, implementation, and MEL, as well as examples of countries making meaningful progress in building strong links from the local to national levels of governance processes. It will also discuss country support needs on vertical integration for adaptation.

When: Friday, December 1, 2023
Where: EU Pavilion

The Adaptation Gap Report series aims to support decision-making at global and national levels by answering three key questions regarding the global process of adapting to climate change: What are we doing today to adapt? To what extent are we currently reducing climate risks? To what extent will our adaptation trajectory help us reduce future climate risks?

To do this, the report series provides annual global assessments of progress within three central elements of the global adaptation process: planning, finance, and implementation. In addition to the report’s core offering, the 2023 iteration of the report will also provide an assessment of adaptation finance gaps, and the loss and damage. The Adaptation Gap Report is co-produced with UNEP, UNEP-Copenhagen Climate Center (UNEP-CCC) and the World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP), which is led by UNEP, WMO, UNFCCC, IPCC, GCF, GEF and UNU.

This event features key findings from the Adaptation Gap Report 2023. Discussions will follow the presentation and focus on the importance to increase adaptation effectiveness, while assessing progress in global adaptation efforts, reducing loss, and evaluating the current adaptation finance gap.

• Progress on Vertical Integration in National Adaptation Plan Processes: Analysis of strategic linkages between national and sub-national levels
• Briefing Note | Progress and Challenges in Achieving Vertical Integration in Adaptation Processes
• Guidance note | Vertical Integration in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: A guidance note for linking national and sub-national adaptation