Adaptation Goal
- November 6, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Adaptation Goal
Subject – Environment
Context – Given the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, the world needs to adapt to climate change
Concept –
- Article 7 of the Paris Agreement establishes a Global Goal on Adaptation of “enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change”.
- The core components of the goal are interconnected and overlapping.
- Their progress will be assessed every five years under the Paris Agreement’s Article 14, Global Stocktake.
- Under the Global Goal on Adaptation, countries have to develop National Adaptation Plans (NAPS), which would identify activities that need support. These are then recorded in a public registry by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
- The fact is there is no clear definition of what the world means by “adaptation” and perhaps there can never be.
- The Adaptation Gap Report 2020, released by the United Nations Environment Programme (unep) earlier this year, states that the adaptation finance gap is not closing—not by a long shot.
- The Adaptation Fund, which was set up 2001, to fund projects in developing countries was financed with a share of the proceeds from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), established under the Kyoto Protocol.
- With CDM now dormant and defunct, the fund, though little, continues to be in operation under the Paris Agreement. It’s a game of shells.