The CASTT Adaptation Academy aims to enhance the ability of developing countries to conduct vulnerability and adaptation assessments, prepare and report, in timely manner, information resulting from such assessments and the implementation of national adaptation actions, including their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), for their national communications, biennial update reports, and biennial transparency reports under the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) arrangements of the Convention and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement. The goal is to enable a systematic, generational step-change in capacity to meet the ambitions of the Paris Agreement, its associated NDCs, and other climate commitments.
The UNFCCC secretariat in collaboration with five research and educational institutions, has initiated the “Climate Action and Support Transparency Training (CASTT) Adaptation Academy”. Designed to provide a multi-week training programme on the Paris Agreement, with a focus on the adaptation reporting aspects of the enhanced transparency framework, the Adaptation Academy will aim to enhance technical capacity for adaptation assessments, planning, policy frameworks and coordination across ministries and governance levels to act on climate change.
Other major topics are anticipated to include planning, policy frameworks, coordination across ministries and governance levels, working with the private sector, finance and cost-benefit analyses, vulnerability and risk assessments, ecosystems, infrastructure, transboundary considerations, and social, gender, and cultural equity issues. Specific topics will also explore aspects relating to agriculture, DRR, energy, cities, coastal regions, and mountainous and high-elevation areas. In addition, the training will include components specifically tailored to regional climatic challenges of each node’s participants to put the broader lessons into more usable and practical contexts.
Who is the target audience?
The primary target for this collaborative partnership will be for professionals and experts from developing countries who are involved in providing technical and substantive input for the preparation of their country’s measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) arrangements and the enhanced transparency framework, with a specific focus on adaptation reporting.
