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.
Climate Change Adaptation Investment Plans: Frequently Asked Questions
By Maribel Hernández and Aurélie Ceinos
As the adverse impacts of climate change on communities and the economy become more evident, there is an urgent need for countries to efficiently mobilize finance and accelerate the implementation of their priority adaptation measures to manage these risks and promote sustainable development in a changing climate. The Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), introduced as […]
Taking Stock of Nature’s Role in National Adaptation Plans
Anika Terton, Jeffrey Qi, Nicole Jang
Nature is essential for building resilience to climate change. Many countries’ national adaptation plans (NAPs) have focused on nature to scale up actions for ecosystems to help people adapt—for example, by protecting wetlands and restoring mangroves to help withstand the impacts of floods. Given the importance of ecosystems across global environmental agendas and the […]
Peer Learning Strategy: Six insights from a decade of NAP Global Network’s South–South peer learning
Chi Pham and Christian Ledwell, NAP Global Network Secretariat (IISD)
In 2017, Victor Santillan, communications officer for Peru’s environment ministry, travelled to Castries for an exchange with Saint Lucia’s government peers as they developed their first-ever communications strategy for the national adaptation plan (NAP) process. Santillan joined a national workshop where the Saint Lucian government engaged journalists and communicators in dialogue on climate change adaptation. […]
Quiz | Innovative Financial Instruments for Climate Change Adaptation
By Deborah Murphy, Senior Associate, NAP Global Network Secretariat (IISD)
Significant financial resources are required now and in the coming decades for people and systems to adapt to a changing climate. Developing countries need about USD 212 billion per year up to 2030 to address their adaptation needs, yet adaptation finance flows were only USD 56 billion in 2021-2022.1 Private sector investment has a pivotal […]
What Is the NAP Assessment in Bonn, and Why Does It Matter?
By Orville Grey and Jeffrey Qi, NAP Global Network Secretariat, IISD
The NAP discussions at SB 60 are crucial, as they lay the foundation for the negotiations at COP 29. (Credit: UN Climate Change) At the UN Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 60), taking place from June 3 to 13, countries will initiate an assessment of their progress in formulating and implementing their NAPs. We look […]
From Blueprint to Reality: Building the foundations for effective national adaptation plan processes with the new MEL Toolkit
Emilie Beauchamp (IISD/NAP GN) and Patrick Pringle (Tonkin + Taylor)
Designed for government teams responsible for leading their country’s NAP processes, the NAP Global Network and Adaptation Committee’s new Toolkit for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) of National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes aims to put the principle of adaptive management at the heart of NAP processes, emphasizing how ongoing learning from MEL is integral to […]
Seven Guiding Principles for Preparing Financing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries
By Deborah Murphy, Senior Associate, NAP Global Network Secretariat (IISD) and Jo-Ellen Parry, Deputy Director, Resilience (IISD)
As developing countries transition from planning to implementation in their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, a critical step is securing financing to implement priority adaptation actions articulated through the NAP process. Several developing countries are preparing “financing strategies for adaptation” to set out a coordinated national approach to identify investment priorities and financing approaches for […]
How to Integrate Learning Into Climate Adaptation Policy Processes
Julie Dekens (IISD), Blane Harvey (McGill University), Andrea K. Gerlak (University of Arizona), and Tanya Heikkila (University of Colorado Denver)
View Report The effectiveness of climate change adaptation decision making largely depends on how well governments and other actors embed deliberate learning into the policy process. Indeed, research shows that learning does not happen automatically—it needs to be created and nurtured. In the new report Integrating Learning in the National Adaptation Plan Process, Julie Dekens […]