Addressing Climate Change Through Integrated Responses: Linking adaptation and mitigation

The document argues that adaptation and mitigation should be treated as complementary processes rather than separate tracks. It emphasizes that integrated planning increases political support, reduces costs, and improves stakeholder dialogue. The text highlights challenges in sectoral understanding—specifically that mitigation-focused sectors often underestimate adaptation needs—and the difficulty of measuring resilience and combining reporting for both approaches. It suggests integrating Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) components into national measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems and calls for international cooperation to share data and case studies on integrated planning.

• Integrating adaptation and mitigation from the start of the planning process provides economic and political advantages, including cost and time savings and increased longevity of strategies through broader political support.
• There is a sectoral imbalance where entities focused on mitigation often fail to recognize climate risks requiring adaptation, necessitating support to help these sectors identify synergies and trade-offs.
• Measuring and reporting adaptation and resilience is more complex than measuring mitigation, which complicates integrated reporting; one proposed solution is to incorporate NDC components of both into national MRV systems.

APA

NAP Global Network (2021). Addressing Climate Change Through Integrated Responses: Linking adaptation and mitigation. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/napgn_en_2021_PLS_session_2_key_messages_KMs.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Addressing Climate Change Through Integrated Responses: Linking adaptation and mitigation. 2021. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/napgn_en_2021_PLS_session_2_key_messages_KMs.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2021addressing, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Addressing Climate Change Through Integrated Responses: Linking adaptation and mitigation}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2021}, month = may, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/napgn_en_2021_PLS_session_2_key_messages_KMs.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }