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Tompkins, Emma L., Vincent, Katharine, Nicholls, Robert J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9715-1109 and Suckall, Natalie
(2018)
Documenting the state of adaptation for the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 9 (5).
ISSN 1757-7780
Abstract
Article 7, paragraph 14 of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change commits Parties to create a five yearly assessmentof observed adaptation to track progress and enable appropriate future commitments through the Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans. No large-scale study exists that shows the types of adaptation, the spatial distribution of types of adaptation, and the numbers of people engaging in that adaptation. To address this gap, and to feed into debates about the modalities for the global stocktake, in this paper, we propose a new “stocktaking” approach to document the spectrum and prevalence of observed adaptation over large scales. The four-step stocktaking approach focuses on: (a) obtaining consensus on the objectives of adaptation; (b) agreeing the sources of evidence; (c) agreeing the search method; and (d) categorizing the adaptations. By focusing on documenting rather than evaluating adaptation, the simple approach avoids some of the adaptation heuristic traps. With guidance to countries on how to operationalize, this approach could improve the transparency of adaptation data collection and analysis, ensure comparability of findings across space and time, and inform the Adaptation Communications (Article 7.10)—a prerequisite to strengthening futureambition commitments within the Paris Agreement.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | M1 - e545 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | global stocktake,tracking adaptation,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2019 02:22 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 05:34 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73299 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/wcc.545 |
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