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Cambodia Hosts Global Forum on Planning for Climate Change Impacts

Targeted Topics Forum | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | Sept 21 -23, 2016

PHNOM PENH – Cambodia is hosting a global forum on national adaptation planning to prepare for climate change impacts. The forum, which involves representatives from over 10 countries, is organized by the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network and will focus on building political support for climate change adaptation. “Cambodia takes climate change very seriously, and it is […]

September 21, 2016

Type: News

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

by Stephen King’uyu, Coordinator, Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plan

“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 […]

August 19, 2016

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

NAP Expo 2016 keynote speech by Dr. Saleemul Huq

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 […]

August 05, 2016

Complete first sNAPshot policy brief series available online

Series focuses on integrating adaptation considerations into sector planning

At COP 21 last year, the NAP Global Network launched the sNAPshot policy brief series to share the lessons emerging from our activities. The sNAPshot briefs are based on the experiences shared by the Network’s participants. This first series looks at a spectrum of approaches for how countries are integrating adaptation considerations into sector planning, which we saw emerging […]

July 14, 2016

Type: News

Albania launches plan to prepare for climate change impacts

International representatives from the Philippines and Grenada, also members of the NAP Global Network, attended the event to share their experiences.

TIRANA, JUNE 29, 2016 — The Albanian government has launched its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) to prepare for the impacts of climate change. “We are very pleased to launch Albania’s National Adaptation Plan, which represents a collaborative vision for protecting Albanian communities from the threats posed by a changing climate,” said Laureta Dibra, Head of […]

June 29, 2016

Type: News

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 […]

May 27, 2016

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 […]

May 26, 2016

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

by Hayley Price-Kelly & Angie Dazé

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 […]

May 20, 2016

Theme: Vertical integration of adaptation

The UNFCCC National Adaptation Planning Model: A Foundation for Fulfilling Post-2015 Commitments?

by Virginia Wiseman, Thematic Expert for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy, IISD Reporting Services

This article originally appeared as a two-part policy update from IISD Reporting Services (Part I and Part II), providing a technical analysis of the role of the National Adaptation Plan process.  Continue reading “The UNFCCC National Adaptation Planning Model: A Foundation for Fulfilling Post-2015 Commitments?”

April 11, 2016