In 2015, the Paris Agreement marked a global change in the commitment of countries to address adaptation, capturing the need to increase its visibility and support for it. As part of the efforts to bring adaptation "on parity" with mitigation, parties established the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) to serve as an overarching aspiration to raise ambitions and accelerate collective actions on adaptations. In other words, the GGA implicitly involves the conceptual and methodological framework through which countries and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will conduct the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) of adaptation under the Paris Agreement.
By Emilie Beauchamp, Iga Józefiak on May 30, 2023