ADAPTATION GAP REPORT 2022

Context: 

According to the UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2022, global adaptation planning, financing and implementation efforts are insufficient to prepare vulnerable communities around the world to adapt to the rising risks of climate change impacts.

Key Points:

Progress on adaptation plans: A third of the 197 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have incorporated quantified and time-bound targets for adaptation.

And 90 per cent of them have considered gender and disadvantaged groups, the report read.

Low Finance: International adaptation finance flows are five-10 times lower than required and this gap continues to grow. Finance for adaptation increased to $29 billion in 2020 — only a four per cent increase over 2019.

Recommendation:

Nature-based solutions to link actions on mitigation and adaptation in terms of planning, financing and implementation, which would provide co-benefits.

Ensure a new business model for turning adaptation priorities into investable projects

Ensure the availability of climate risk data and information

Implementation and operationalisation of early warning systems

About the Adaptation Gap Report:

It has been published by UNEP since its first edition in 2014.

The aim of the reports is to inform national and international efforts to advance adaptation.

From 2020 and onwards, the Report consists of two main parts:

A recurrent assessment of global progress on adaptation in three areas: planning, financing and implementation.

A deeper assessment of the status of adaptation within a particular sector or theme under the same three elements as part one.

About the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):

The UNEP was established in 1972 following the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

UNEP, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, collaborates with its 193 Member States and other stakeholders to address environmental concerns through the UN Environment Assembly, the world’s top environmental decision-making body.