Advancing adaptation in NDCs 3.0: Twelve recommendations for adaptation in NDCs

The report provides 12 recommendations for accelerating climate adaptation, emphasizing stronger national planning, enhanced finance, transformational approaches, and integration into NDCs 3.0, supported by global frameworks and knowledge sharing to build resilient, equitable, and climate-ready societies.

The NDC is a high-level policy document through which countries signal national ambition, communicate targets, and outline what is needed to develop the enabling systems for scaling up implementation and investment. The NDC can be used as a tool to integrate adaptation with development, which is core to resilience, while also identifying investment priorities to public and private financiers. Where a country chooses to include an adaptation component in their NDC, this should be done within the context of other adaptation-related plans, communications, and submissions, including National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).