ADAPTATION
GAP REPORT - REPORTS & INDICES
News: Adaptation Gap Report
2023
What's
in the news?
● The
UNEP Adaptation Gap Report (AGR)
series provides an annual science-based assessment of the global progress on
adaptation planning, financing, and implementation.
2023
Report:
● UNEP’s
Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Underfinanced
- Underprepared – Inadequate investment
and planning on climate adaptation leaves the world exposed finds that progress
on climate adaptation is slowing when it should be accelerating to catch up
with these rising climate change impacts.
Adaptation
Gap Report:
● The
Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) is an annual
UNEP flagship publication.
● The
Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) has been published each year since 2014 by the UNEP.
Objective
of the Report:
● The
report's primary objective is to inform the negotiators of the UNFCCC Member
States, and the broader UNFCCC constituency, about the status and trends within climate adaptation at global and regional
levels.
Features
of the Report:
● The
AGR also provides a set of science-based options to policymakers and
decision-makers to increase ambition in adapting to climate change across key
climate-sensitive sectors.
● Since
2014, UNEP has produced science-based
assessments of the adaptation gap with the purpose of facilitating an
adequate adaptation response in the context of the temperature and adaptation
goals of the UNFCCC process.
Go
back to basics:
Adaptation
Gap:
● The
adaptation gap is the difference between
actually implemented adaptation and a goal set by society, determined
largely by preferences related to climate change impacts, and reflecting resource
limitations and competing priorities.