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Description

The Adaptation Principles offer a guide to effective climate change adaptation, containing hands-on guidance to the design, implementation and monitoring of national adaptation strategies, showing that each country needs to tailor adaptation actions to its specific needs and priorities. To guide this process, the Adaptation Principles offer concrete and practical tools: Screening questions to identify the most urgent and effective actions, toolboxes illustrating common datasets and methodologies to support decisions, indicators to monitor and evaluate progress, and case studies on how the COVID-19 pandemic influences priorities in taking effective adaptation action.

Tool Outcome

The Adaptation Principles offer a guide to effective climate change adaptation, containing hands-on guidance to the design, implementation and monitoring of national adaptation strategies, thereby assisting a broad range of stakeholders – from governments to individual households and firms – in the complex task of effective action on adaptation and resilience.

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The Adaptation Principles offer a guide to effective climate change adaptation divided in six principles:
– Ensuring resilient foundations through rapid and inclusive development
– Facilitating the adaptation of firms and people
– Adapting land use and protecting critical public assets and services
– Increasing people’s capacity to cope with and recover from shocks
– Anticipating and managing macroeconomic and fiscal risks
– Ensuring effective implementation through prioritization and continuous monitoring

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