Assessing adaptation progress for the global stocktake

This research paper by the Stockholm Environment Institute discusses the difficulties in tracking and demonstrating progress toward the global goal on adaptation within the UNFCCC global stocktake, highlighting a lack of rigour in reporting and evaluation.

• Tracking progress toward the global goal on adaptation—which aims to reduce vulnerability, strengthen resilience, and enhance adaptive capacity—is hindered by imprecise wording and a general lack of rigour in reporting and evaluation.
• The authors identify four specific challenges regarding the evidence used to assess adaptation progress: data on outputs and outcomes are not easily accessible, reporting is inconsistent and incomplete, independent impact evaluations are rare, and evaluations often focus on process rather than actual progress.
• To address these challenges, the authors propose that the adaptation community create a free global database of interventions, adopt consistent indicators for reporting, increase investment in rigorous monitoring and evaluation, and apply established impact evaluation approaches from development research.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Assessing adaptation progress for the global stocktake. https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-adaptation-progress-for-the-global-stocktake/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Assessing adaptation progress for the global stocktake. 2023. https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-adaptation-progress-for-the-global-stocktake/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023assessing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Assessing adaptation progress for the global stocktake}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = apr, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-adaptation-progress-for-the-global-stocktake/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }