How to Make Progress on Climate Adaptation during COP 20

The briefing outlines three key recommendations for COP 20 negotiators to strengthen climate adaptation in the upcoming 2015 agreement: establishing a qualitative global goal for adaptation, creating a five-year 'adaptation cycle' for continuous improvement and review, and integrating the existing National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process into this cycle to maintain national flexibility.

• The 2015 climate agreement should establish a qualitative global goal focused on helping vulnerable communities build resilience against climate impacts such as erratic precipitation and sea level rise, supported by increased finance, technology, and support from developed nations to developing countries.
• To ensure progress, the document proposes an 'adaptation cycle' where countries commit to strengthening adaptation efforts every five years. This process would include transparent reviews of adaptation progress, institutional arrangements, and finance for adaptation and loss and damage, without serving as a justification for reducing mitigation efforts.
• Negotiators should build upon the existing National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process and the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) to design the adaptation cycle. The cycle should avoid being proscriptive to allow countries planning flexibility, using a communication vehicle to bridge national NAP processes with the global cycle.

APA

World Resources Institute (2014). How to Make Progress on Climate Adaptation during COP 20. https://www.wri.org/insights/how-make-progress-climate-adaptation-during-cop-20

Chicago

World Resources Institute. How to Make Progress on Climate Adaptation during COP 20. 2014. https://www.wri.org/insights/how-make-progress-climate-adaptation-during-cop-20.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2014how, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{How to Make Progress on Climate Adaptation during COP 20}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2014}, month = dec, url = {https://www.wri.org/insights/how-make-progress-climate-adaptation-during-cop-20}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }