Analysis and commentary on the Network’s experiences coordinating climate-resilient development.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?”
What the Paris Agreement Means for the National Adaptation Plan Process
by Anne Hammill, Jo-Ellen Parry and Hayley Price-Kelly
Here are some key ways that the Paris Agreement will reinforce and build on the UNFCCC’s prior commitments related to NAPs and potentially affect developing countries’ adaptation efforts.
South-South learning to support use of climate information in the NAP process
Event highlight from COP21
This event highlighted opportunities for south-south learning through the NAP Global Network, focusing in on the example of sharing experiences using climate information to support the NAP process.
The NAP process and the Sustainable Development Goals
Strengthening the means of implementation
Beyond taking urgent action to fight climate change, the NAP process and engagement around it provide an example of how we can strengthen the means of implementation (and financing) of the SDGs.
Integrating adaptation considerations into sector planning
A spectrum of approaches
A range of approaches to integrating adaptation considerations across sectors and levels demonstrates how the NAP process can lead to a common outcome (integration) via varying country-specific pathways.