Publication date: 2021

Abstract

Article 7 of the Paris Agreement established the global goal on adaptation of “enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate response in the context of the temperature goal” of “[h]olding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”

To assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of the Paris Agreement and its long-term goals, Article 14 of the Agreement established the global stocktake, a cyclical mechanism taking place every five years beginning in 2023. In relation to adaptation, the global stocktake will, among other things, review the overall progress made in achieving the global goal on adaptation. Beyond shedding light on what Parties have achieved, the outcomes of the global stocktake will inform Parties in “updating and enhancing, in a nationally determined manner, their actions and support in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Paris Agreement, as well as in enhancing international cooperation for climate action.