TY - JOUR
T1 - Tracking global climate change adaptation among governments
AU - Berrang-Ford, Lea
AU - Biesbroek, Robbert
AU - Ford, James D.
AU - Lesnikowski, Alexandra
AU - Tanabe, Andrew
AU - Wang, Frances M.
AU - Chen, Chen
AU - Hsu, Angel
AU - Hellmann, Jessica J.
AU - Pringle, Patrick
AU - Grecequet, Martina
AU - Amado, J. C.
AU - Huq, Saleemul
AU - Lwasa, Shuaib
AU - Heymann, S. Jody
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019, Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - The Paris Agreement and Katowice Climate Package articulate a clear mandate for all parties to undertake and document adaptation progress. Yet persistent challenges have prevented substantive developments in tracking adaptation and the assessment of adaptation actions and their outcomes. Here, we provide an overview of the challenges of adaptation tracking and propose a comprehensive conceptual framework for assessing adaptation progress by governments that is scalable over time and across contexts. The framework addresses the core components of adaptation assessment (vulnerability, goals and targets, adaptation efforts, and adaptation results) and characterizes subcomponents focused on adaptation effort (leadership, organizations and policy). In particular, we highlight how critical insights can be uncovered by systematically tracking policy efforts over time, and discusses novel approaches to data collection.
AB - The Paris Agreement and Katowice Climate Package articulate a clear mandate for all parties to undertake and document adaptation progress. Yet persistent challenges have prevented substantive developments in tracking adaptation and the assessment of adaptation actions and their outcomes. Here, we provide an overview of the challenges of adaptation tracking and propose a comprehensive conceptual framework for assessing adaptation progress by governments that is scalable over time and across contexts. The framework addresses the core components of adaptation assessment (vulnerability, goals and targets, adaptation efforts, and adaptation results) and characterizes subcomponents focused on adaptation effort (leadership, organizations and policy). In particular, we highlight how critical insights can be uncovered by systematically tracking policy efforts over time, and discusses novel approaches to data collection.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066810443&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41558-019-0490-0
DO - 10.1038/s41558-019-0490-0
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85066810443
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 9
SP - 440
EP - 449
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
IS - 6
ER -