Article 7 of the 2015 Paris Agreement established the global goal on adaptation, which aims to enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience, and reduce vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate adaptation response in the context of the temperature goal referred to in Article 2.
The UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience
Following a two-year process, the Glasgow–Sharm el-Sheikh work programme, at CMA 5 (2023) Parties adopted the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience under, as part of the UAE Consensus. The framework includes a range of thematic and dimensional targets for climate adaptation and resilience.
Indicators
CMA 5 also established the two-year UAE–Belém work programme on indicators for measuring progress towards the targets outlined in the framework. Following an expert-led process, at CMA 7 (2025) Parties adopted a set of 59 Belém Adaptation Indicators, reporting on which will serve as an input to the global stocktake. CMA 7 also established the Belém–Addis Vision on Adaptation, comprising a two-year policy alignment process that will progress alongside further technical work on metadata and methodologies for the indicators, undertaken by the Subsidiary Bodies.
The Baku Adaptation Roadmap
At CMA 6 (2024), Parties launched the Baku Adaptation Roadmap (BAR) with the aim of advancing progress in line with Article 7, paragraph 1, of the Paris Agreement. CMA 7 decided that two workshops per year will be held under the BAR and requested the secretariat to prepare a technical paper. The topics of these workshops are informed by submissions from Parties.
CMA 6 also established the Baku High-Level Dialogue, an annual event held in the margins of CMA sessions and co-organized by the current and outgoing COP Presidencies.