Patrick Guerdat is a policy advisor with the IISD Resilience Program. His work focuses on the coordination of technical support on climate change adaptation, as well as policy research and analysis on resilience and National Adaptation Plan processes. This includes providing support to developing countries on how to measure and report on the progress made […]
National M&E of adaptation looks at progress towards adaptation in a country, including progress in implementing adaptation policies, plans, or interventions, as well as impacts that these may have (also known as adaptation outcomes).
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into a country’s medium-term budget is a multi-dimensional, continuous process that takes time. Recently, Albania successfully took on this challenge. As with any new policy that has relevant impacts in several sectors of the economy at once—as is the case with climate change adaptation—a transitional period is required to understand the […]
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Adaptation takes place in highly dynamic and complex environments. As the design and implementation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) advance, adaptation planners are increasingly focusing on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of adaptation progress and outcomes. This interest reflects a commitment to strengthening the effectiveness of adaptation efforts and climate-resilient development through improved accountability and reporting, […]
Saint Lucia, like many of our Caribbean neighbours, has been committed, for many years, to building its resilience to climate change. Though we are at the early stages of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process, we recognize it as an important opportunity to prepare our society and economy for climate change impacts. While the NAP […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]