The 2nd Global Adaptation Network Forum
The 2nd Global Adaptation Network Forum will focus on some of the most pressing challenges for climate change adaptation and provide an opportunity for decision makers, policy experts and practitioners to share knowledge and experience on how to address these challenges.
News headlines draw attention, on an almost daily basis, to the impact of climate change around the world. The policy world is responding. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes, for the first time, a Global Adaptation Goal. The UN climate conference in Bonn in November 2017, under the Presidency of Fiji, underscored the importance of building climate resilience. But there is still a need to identify the most effective solutions to adaptation problems and to have the mechanisms in place to share that knowledge. The Forum will provide a venue to address these issues. Its results are intended to inform discussions and deliberations later in the year, including the meetings of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Global Climate Action Summit.
The Forum will be organized jointly by UN Environment’s Global Adaptation Network and Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. Holding the Forum in Abu Dhabi provides an opportunity to consider some of the specific challenges in Gulf region, including how to ensure continued access to clean freshwater. The solutions developed in the region can be of relevance in other parts of the world.
There are four main themes for the Forum. These are:
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From the Gulf to the World
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Adaptation metrics: assessing risks and progress
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Adaptation Learning
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Reaching the most vulnerable
Cross-cutting theme: Adaptation and non-state actors