Presentation from March 2022 CCXG Global Forum

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OECD-IEA Climate
Change Expert Group
Global Forum-
Global Goal on
Adaptation
Sindy Singh
Trinidad and Tobago
March 23rd, 2022

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Context/background
 To assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of
the Paris Agreement and its long-term goals including on the Global
Goal on Adaptation, Article 14 of the Agreement established the
Global Stocktake.
 The assessment of collective progress towards achieving the
Global Goal on Adaptation is therefore a process of measuring the
direction of travel in terms of enhancing adaptive capacity,
strengthening resilience, and reducing vulnerability.
 Therefore for the GST, we need to understand progress in
adaptation action in response to priorities and actions, adequate
planning for adaptation, and support needs.

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The Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh Work Programme
on the Global Goal on Adaptation
 Enable the full and sustained implementation of the Paris Agreement, towards achieving the global goal on
adaptation, with a view to enhancing adaptation action and support;
 Enhance understanding of the global goal on adaptation, including of the methodologies, indicators, data and
metrics, needs and support needed for assessing progress towards it;
 Contribute to reviewing the overall progress made in achieving the global goal on adaptation as part of the global stocktake
referred to in Article 7, paragraph 14, and Article 14 of the Paris Agreement with a view to informing the first and subsequent
global stocktakes;
 Enhance national planning and implementation of adaptation actions through the process to formulate and
implement national adaptation plans and through nationally determined contributions and adaptation
communications;
 Enable Parties to better communicate their adaptation priorities, implementation and support needs, plans and actions,
including through adaptation communications and nationally determined contributions;
 Facilitate the establishment of robust, nationally appropriate systems for monitoring and evaluating adaptation actions;
 Strengthen implementation of adaptation actions in vulnerable developing countries;
 Enhance understanding of how communication and reporting instruments established under the Convention and the Paris
Agreement related to adaptation can complement each other in order to avoid duplication of efforts.

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Guiding Questions for the Technical Assessment
Component of the GST- Adaptation
 What is the collective progress in terms of the current implementation of, and ambition in, adaptation actions
towards achieving the goals defined in Articles 2.1(b)3 and 7.14 of the Paris Agreement?
 What efforts are being undertaken to plan, implement and accelerate adaptation action towards achieving the
goals defined in Articles 2.1 (b) and 7.1 of the Paris Agreement and with a view to recognizing the adaptation
efforts of developing country Parties, what efforts have been undertaken by these Parties towards achieving
these goals?
 How adequate and effective are the current adaptation efforts and the support provided for adaptation towards
achieving the goals defined in Articles 2.1(b) and 7.1 of the Paris Agreement?
 How can the implementation of adaptation action towards achieving the goals defined in Articles 2.1(b) and 7.1
of the Paris Agreement be enhanced, taking into account the adaptation communication referred to in paragraph
10 of the Paris Agreement?
 In order to achieve the goals defined in Articles 2.1(b) and 7.1 of the Paris Agreement: a) What further action is
required? b) What are the barriers and challenges, and how can they be overcome at national, regional and
international levels? c) What are the opportunities, good practices, lessons learned and success stories?

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Key issues and challenges to assessing overall
progress towards the GGA in the GST process
 The GGA is global, but adaptation efforts are undertaken at the
national, sub-national and community levels.
 Conceptual and methodological challenges on how to
“aggregate” the adaptation efforts of countries to determine how
much progress has been made globally.

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Key issues and challenges to assessing overall
progress towards the GGA in the GST process
 Developing countries face challenges in assessing risk and
vulnerabilities to climate change;
 Challenges in identifying and prioritizing adaptation actions;
 Challenges in implementation;
 Challenges in monitoring and evaluation.

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Key issues and challenges to assessing overall
progress towards the GGA in the GST process
Where NAPs, Ad Comms, Nat Comms, NDCs contain information,
challenges related to:
 Timeframes: Timescales vary: Some have multiple timeframes.
Some do not mention timeframes.
 Monitoring and evaluation: whilst many countries mention
monitoring and evaluation systems, most of them indicate that these
systems are still being developed.
 Indicators to measure progress. Variety of indicators. Mostly
qualitative indicators. A few countries have quantitative indicators
that can be used to assess progress.

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Key issues and challenges to assessing overall
progress towards the GGA in the GST process
 How to review the adequacy and effectiveness of adaptation, and
the support provided for it?
 Many countries have not identified what their adaptation needs
are (in terms of actions and/or support), nor what would
constitute effectiveness of such action.
 Countries that have identified needs for adaptation support, have
used different metrics and often not in a transparent manner.

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Issues identified in SIDS
 Reporting on the progress made on creating or strengthening strategic
linkages between climate adaptation planning, implementation, and M&E
between the national and subnational level, was also lacking.
 Very little reporting was done on gender and social inclusion, or which
groups of people have benefited from the progress made in general.
 Few documents identify aligning progress reporting of the NAP with the
various other international and domestic processes.
 Little mention of the next steps in terms of how the results would be
communicated to international, national and subnational actors as well
as to the international community.

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Opportunities
 Learn from existing multi-level monitoring frameworks e.g. the
SDGs that focuses primarily on national-level monitoring, but also
includes global, regional and thematic monitoring aspects.
 How such multi-level monitoring processes may be organised is still
an open question in relation to the GGA- work for the GlaSS?
 Global monitoring is a vital complement to ensure global co-
ordination and support strategies to manage global public goods.
 Parties may also seek to leverage the information they have
included in other frameworks, where relevant to adaptation for input
into the GST.

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How could the GST process help to enhance the
implementation of adaptation action at different levels…
 Information on what progress is being made towards a country’s
adaptation-related goals will help countries identify if they are on
track to meet these aims, and thus if their adaptation plans or
actions need to be adjusted. This can therefore help countries
strengthen their adaptation actions, if needed.
 This can assist in facilitating regional and/or ecosystem
approaches.
 Potential to address transboundary risks and impacts.

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How could the GST process help to enhance the
implementation of adaptation action at different levels…
 The GST could enhance adaptation by distilling information
included in countries’ adaptation communications and other
instruments in order to fill knowledge gaps and disseminate
lessons learned.
 In assessing the adequacy effectiveness of of adaptation
support, the GST could potentially also lead to enhanced
adaptation action, if it led to increases in funding for adaptation.

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Importance of monitoring, evaluation,
and learning systems
 Adaptation monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) has a
critical role to play in adjusting adaptation actions to meet
escalating risks.
 The generation of information from MEL can help decision-
makers learn what is working, what is not working, when
adaptation limits are being approached, how and why adaptation
actions succeed or fail, and how adaptation can support wider
development goals.

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Case Study: Trinidad and Tobago
• USD 1.1 million
approved in July 2021
• Collaboration with UNEP
and the EMA
• Objective: Strengthen
Trinidad and Tobago's
transparency systems to
meet the requirements of
the Enhanced
Transparency
Framework under the
Paris Agreement on
Climate Change

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Thank You!