After COP28, unleash innovation to better measure adaptation

As the impacts of climate change escalate, understanding whether humanity is on track to adapt or on a pathway towards higher risk levels is essential but raises many methodological challenges. In the wake of COP28, this conference aims to explore innovative qualitative tools to measure adaptation progress, which offer complementary insights to traditional quantitative methods.

While climate change continues to progress and associated risks are expected to become more intense and complex than previously thought, the latest IPCC report showed that climate adaptation policies and projects often are poorly monitored. Assessment methods based on quantitative indicators have been prominent up to now, but they show limitations especially relating to the difficulty of identifying statistical data that capture the complex nature of adaptation (e.g. beyond only quantitative GDP- or income-related metrics), and are relevant across contexts. So that alternative approaches are needed to provide complement insights on climate adaptation status and trends at the global level.

This event aims at presenting innovative qualitative tools to measure adaptation that are based on structured expert judgement approach: GAP-Track (IDDRI), the Resilience Rating System (World Bank) and the Country Adaptation and Resilience Readiness Diagnostic (World Bank) are major contributions to better assess the progress of adaptation a different scales.

Such assessment tools can be thus pivotal both for informing the UNFCCC Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), especially the 2-year work programme on indicators decided at COP28, as well as for the Ministries of Environment and all International Development partners in the perspective of the Second Global Stocktake in 2028.

Registration free of charge and mandatory. The conference will be on-line only, in English with French interpretation.

 

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