Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water - As fires and floods hit the poor hardest, it is time for the world to step up adaptation actions
United Nations Environment Programme, María del Pilar Bueno Rubial, Alexandre Magnan, Lars Christiansen, Henry Neufeldt, Anne Hammill, Keron Niles, Thomas William Dale, Timo Leiter, Lucy Njuguna, Chandni Singh, Dennis Bours, Blanche Butera, Nella Canales, Dipesh Chapagain, Kit England, P.S. Pauw, Paul Watkiss, Blane Harvey, Lindy Callen Charlery, Georgina Cundill-Kemp, Sara Lærke Meltofte Trærup, Joshitha Sankam
Abstract
The Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) series contributes to addressing these questions by annually assessing progress on adaptation and informing key processes, notably under the UNFCCC. In line with this, the AGR 2024 continues to assess information on planning, implementation and finance (chapters 2, 3 and 4, respectively), to explore whether countries are collectively on track to adapt to the global challenge of climate change. The AGR 2024 extends its assessments in important ways compared with the previous AGRs. First, it includes a topical chapter to discuss the central issue of ‘means of implementation’ other than finance itself, namely capacity-building and technology transfer (see section 1.2 and chapter 5). Second, it further considers underlying causes and processes behind the numbers, as well as a more downscaled analysis of subnational adaptation action (sporadically using the example of cities).