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Measuring the adaptation goal in the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement

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  • Brianna Craft
  • Susannah Fisher

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The Paris Agreement establishes a global goal on adaptation which will be assessed through the global stocktake, the first attempt by the international climate change regime to measure collective progress on adaptation. This policy analysis identifies four main challenges to designing a meaningful assessment. These are: designing a system that can aggregate results; managing the dual mandate of reviewing collective progress and informing the enhancement of national level actions; methodological challenges in adaptation; and political challenges around measurement. We propose a mixed-methods approach to addressing these challenges, combining short-term needs for reporting with longer-term aims of enhancing national adaptation actions.Key policy insights Broad domains of adaptation activity could be identified within each of the objectives of the adaptation goal and progress could be measured and aggregated through simple scorecards. The goal should have both process and outcome indicators as well as some narrative linking activities to outcomes over time. Reporting could be a compilation of national data using qualitative and quantitative sources, aligning with the global stocktake’s aim of enhancing national actions over time and reducing immediate reporting burdens. There would be a complementary role at least in the short term for an expert assessment of priority areas.

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  • Brianna Craft & Susannah Fisher, 2018. "Measuring the adaptation goal in the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(9), pages 1203-1209, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tcpoxx:v:18:y:2018:i:9:p:1203-1209
    DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1485546
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    1. Iain Brown & Pam Berry, 2022. "National Climate Change Risk Assessments to inform adaptation policy priorities and environmental sustainability outcomes: a knowledge systems perspective," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 175(3), pages 1-24, December.
    2. Tania Guillén Bolaños & Jürgen Scheffran & María Máñez Costa, 2022. "Climate Adaptation and Successful Adaptation Definitions: Latin American Perspectives Using the Delphi Method," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-21, April.
    3. Alexandra Lesnikowski & James D. Ford & Robbert Biesbroek & Lea Berrang-Ford, 2019. "A policy mixes approach to conceptualizing and measuring climate change adaptation policy," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 156(4), pages 447-469, October.
    4. Manjana Milkoreit & Kate Haapala, 2019. "The global stocktake: design lessons for a new review and ambition mechanism in the international climate regime," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 89-106, February.
    5. Anne J. Sietsma & Rick W. Groenendijk & Robbert Biesbroek, 2023. "Progress on climate action: a multilingual machine learning analysis of the global stocktake," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 176(12), pages 1-12, December.

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