Peer Learning Summit: The role of the NAP process in advancing the implementation of the adaptation goals under the Paris Agreement
Bangkok, Thailand | Oct 1-2, 2018
Tag: NDCs
Gender in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: A pilot review of climate change adaptation planning documents from 15 countries
by Angie Dazé and Julie Dekens, IISD
The linkages between gender and climate change adaptation have been recognized as a key issue under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since the early 2000s. The 2015 Paris Agreement increased the ambition on gender, referring to gender equality and women’s empowerment and calling for action on climate change to be gender-responsive. […]
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 […]