What Does the First Global Stocktake Mean for the National Adaptation Plan Process?

The report synthesizes key messages from the first global stocktake (GST) to support developing countries in enhancing their national adaptation plan (NAP) processes. It emphasizes the iterative adaptation cycle—comprising impact, vulnerability, and risk assessment (IVRA), planning, implementation, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL)—as the guiding framework. Key findings highlight the need for gender-responsive and inclusive planning, the mainstreaming of adaptation across governance levels, and the critical role of nature-based solutions. The document also addresses the widening adaptation finance gap and provides a practical roadmap for countries to implement GST outcomes based on their current NAP status, while outlining reporting mechanisms through NDCs, AdComs, and BTRs to prepare for the second global stocktake.

• The first global stocktake concluded that while there is increasing ambition in adaptation plans, most current efforts are "fragmented, incremental, sector-specific and unequally distributed across regions".
• The UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience (UAE FGCR) establishes a 2030 target for all Parties to have conducted up-to-date assessments of climate hazards, impacts, and exposure to risks and vulnerabilities to inform their NAP processes.
• The global stocktake sets a 2030 target for all countries to establish national adaptation plans and planning processes that are "country-driven, gender-responsive, participatory and fully transparent".
• Effective adaptation requires mainstreaming climate resilience across all levels of government, as the report notes that "governments need to support systems transformations that mainstream climate resilience," and this is the "responsibility of all governments at all levels".
• A critical 2030 target under the UAE FGCR is for all Parties to have "designed, established and operationalized a system for monitoring, evaluation and learning for their national adaptation efforts" and built the necessary institutional capacity.
• Transformational adaptation, defined as changing the fundamental attributes of a social-ecological system, is encouraged but noted as "hard to implement and difficult to define, contextualize, and measure".
• Nature-based solutions (NbS) and ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) are central to achieving the global goal on adaptation, with a 2030 target to reduce climate impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity.
• There is a significant adaptation finance gap; while international adaptation finance grew to USD 27.5 billion in 2022, this is far below the estimated annual need of USD 215 billion to USD 87 billion for developing countries.
• The new collective quantified goal on climate finance agreed at COP 29 aims to scale up finance to developing countries to at least USD 1.3 trillion per year by 2035, with a goal of mobilizing at least USD 300 billion per year by 2035.

APA

Qi, J., & Beauchamp, E. (2025). What Does the First Global Stocktake Mean for the National Adaptation Plan Process? NAP Global Network. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/napgn-en-2025-global-stocktake-nap-process-1.pdf

Chicago

Qi, Jeffrey, and Emilie Beauchamp. What Does the First Global Stocktake Mean for the National Adaptation Plan Process? NAP Global Network, 2025. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/napgn-en-2025-global-stocktake-nap-process-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{qi2025what, author = {Qi, Jeffrey and Beauchamp, Emilie}, title = {{What Does the First Global Stocktake Mean for the National Adaptation Plan Process?}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2025}, month = jul, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/napgn-en-2025-global-stocktake-nap-process-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }