Insights
Explore the latest explainers, expert analysis, and story highlights from the NAP Global Network on advancing national adaptation planning and climate action around the world.
Climate Change Adaptation and Peacebuilding Keep Missing Each Other
Alignment between peace and climate adaptation efforts can strengthen resilience, legitimacy, and long-term stability, often more effectively and at lower cost than treating the two agendas in isolation.
Why the Education Sector Matters in the National Adaptation Plan Process: New resources for NAP teams and education ministries
We explore how NAP teams and education ministries can work together to support climate-resilient education systems.
What Four Asia–Pacific Countries Are Learning About Reporting on Climate Change Adaptation
Government representatives from the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Bhutan shared insights for strengthening the next round of the Biennial Transparency Report.
Between the Tides: Climate change adaptation in Palau
This article explores how the country is working to adapt to the impacts through its NAP process, building on community knowledge, nature-based solutions, and local leadership.
Year In Review: Six key impacts in 2016
2016 was a landmark year for climate change adaptation. Building on adaptation’s prominent role in the Paris Agreement, 2016 saw unprecedented international political momentum to tackle climate change impacts in vulnerable countries. The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network had an exciting year working to do our part to help move the dial forward on […]
Gender, Adaptation Planning and the Art of Asking the “Right” Questions
by Angelica V. Ospina, IISD
Limited access by women and girls to productive assets—including land, financial resources and information—as well as their limited participation in decision-making processes can exacerbate the consequences of climate change shocks and stresses, particularly in vulnerable developing countries.A recent webinar by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations convened a range of experts […]
Building a Climate-Resilient Caribbean: Grenada Hosts National Adaptation Planning Workshop (external site)
by Christian Ledwell, IISD
Using NDCs and NAPs to Advance Climate-Resilient Development
by Hayley Price-Kelly and Anne Hammill, IISD
With the Paris Agreement’s entry into force, the focus is shifting towards its implementation—in particular, countries are looking at how to meet the commitments they set out in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)[1]. Although not mandatory, many countries are choosing to include an adaptation component in their NDC in addition to setting out their mitigation […]
Learning to Adapt: Taking Action on Lessons Emerging Through the NAP Global Network
One of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network’s objectives is to support sustained peer learning and exchange among countries around the world on the NAP process. This piece looks at how the Network has worked with three countries in our first peer group of Targeted Topics Forum countries—Grenada, Albania, and the Philippines—to facilitate continuous […]
Green Climate Fund to Boost Support for National Adaptation Plans
by Anne Hammill and Hayley Price-Kelly, IISD
At its 13th meeting in Songdo, Republic of Korea, at the end of June, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board announced plans to provide financial support to developing countries for the formulation of national adaptation plans (NAPs) and/or other national adaptation planning processes.Specifically, countries can now request up to USD 3 million in support through […]
Vertical Integration: A Key Element of Inclusive, Effective NAP Processes
by Angie Dazé, IISD
With the Paris Agreement set to enter into force just before COP 22, attention is turning to how to implement the historic agreement: how do we achieve its commitments and how do we ramp up ambition over time?For the first time, we have a global goal for climate change adaptation that is explicitly linked to […]
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 intensifies, […]