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Explainer: What are National Adaptation Plans and why do they matter?
This explainer article lays out how National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) help countries identify climate risks, plan long-term adaptation strategies, and access the support needed to build resilience for communities and ecosystems.
Tackling climate loss and damage: why COP29’s unmet agendas can’t be ignored
This piece was originally published on the IIED website. At the COP28 climate summit in 2023, governments formally established the...
Understanding the Paris Agreement’s ‘Global Goal on Adaptation’
The authors explain the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), key areas of priorities, what progress has been made and what comes next.
How to channel climate funds to the local level: choosing the right delivery mechanism
This report outlines delivery mechanisms for ensuring that at least 70% of climate finance reaches local communities in Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Analysis: Nearly a tenth of global climate finance threatened by Trump aid cuts
Nearly a tenth of global climate finance could be under threat as US president Donald Trump’s aid cuts risk wiping out huge swathes of spending overseas, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
What’s next for the UAE-Belém work programme on indicators for the UAE framework for global climate resilience?
This piece discusses the UAE-Belém Work Programme, which focuses on developing global indicators to measure climate resilience, addressing challenges such as data gaps and standardization. The programme aims to refine these indicators through workshops in 2025, in preparation for COP 30.
Compromises, challenges and more unfinished business at COP16’s reconvened biodiversity talks
The United Nations biodiversity conference (COP16) recently reconvened in Rome to resume global negotiations on filling the biodiversity funding gap and conserving nature worldwide. This piece outlines key decisions, compromises and challenges that emerged from the talks, and discuss the way forward for biodiversity action.
Cross-border, cascading climate risks and the LDC Group: Catalyzing management options within the UNFCCC
This policy brief highlights efforts to develop indicators capturing transboundary and cascading climate risks for inclusion in the UAE–Belém Work Programme, emphasizing regional and international cooperation to strengthen adaptation strategies for Least Developed Countries.
Programme Launch: Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC)
The launch of the “MACC Hub” outlined key adaptation issues for the UK and put forward ways to engage with the project and its research agenda
Operation damage control: Trump’s executive orders and the climate
President Trump’s orders to leave the Paris Agreement and “terminate the Green New Deal” will have far-reaching implications for climate governance and action in the United States and globally, but giving up is not an option.
