Synthesis report for the technical assessment component of the first global stocktake

This synthesis report is provided by the Adaptation Committee as input to the technical assessment component of the first global stocktake. The Adaptation Committee considers the global stocktake as a major opportunity for collective learning from past adaptation efforts and for informing future approaches to address the global adaptation challenge.

The global stocktake takes place at an important juncture at which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Working Group II has informed the world that there is no time to loose for moving from adaptation planning to the implementation of action given that the window of opportunity for sustainable development for all is closing rapidly.