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Article originally published in UNFCCC Newsroom, 20 October 2020. UN Climate Change News, 20 October 2020 – The UNFCCC secretariat held the second NAP Champions webinar of this year on 14 October on how to enhance climate risk management through the formulation and implementation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). As the world is experiencing increasingly frequent extreme weather events and other climate...

On the 9th of June 2020 a special event on “Advancing NAPs and climate-resilient recovery under COVID-19” was organized by the UNFCCC as part of its June Momentum Climate Change initiative. The event featured as high level included the SBI Chair, the Under-Secretary-General High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, the chair...

Article originally published in UNFCCC Newsroom, 4 June 2020. UN Climate Change News, 4 June 2020 – At an event organized under the 2020 June Momentum for Climate Change, participants addressed the critically important question of how to improve the delivery of support to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to effectively address the impacts of climate change, including in the context of emerging challenges...

The LEG is actively engaging with countries to assist them with the formulation of their NAP, hopefully to be submitted by end of 2020 or soon after. The Open NAP is an initiative designed to provide technical assistance to those developing countries needing support in pulling together their NAP, following the view of the NAP as an umbrella programme for...

The National Adaptation Plan (NAP), is envisioned to be the umbrella programme for adaptation for a country, embracing and coordinating adaptation efforts at all levels and by all actors in the country, while servicing specific end uses, including the following: The NAP serving as the national policy instrument for coordinating and driving adaptation actions of all actors in the country...

NAP Expos: Promoting Exchange of Experiences and Fostering Partnerships The NAP Expos are annual outreach events organized by the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) under the UNFCCC in collaboration with relevant partners. Since their inception in 2013, the Expos have promoted the exchange of experiences and fostered partnerships between a wide range of actors on advancing National Adaptation Plans...

Full details of the report is available for download here. View the infographic here.

The National adaptation plan (NAP) process is organized along four elements: Laying the groundwork and addressing gaps (A), preparatory elements (B, implementation strategies (C), and reporting, monitoring and review (D). It is conducted by a designated national government institution (for example the National Climate Change Secretariat in the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya or the Technical Group...

Governments at the last UN climate change conference, held from 30 April to 10 May 2018 in Bonn, Germany, agreed to update the elements of the least developed countries (LDCs) work programme to reflect new and continuing needs of the LDCs. This is a historic milestone since the establishment of the work programme in 2001. The original LDC work programme...