Accountable Adaptation
Urgency with inclusion in climate finance
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Accountable Adaptation
Accountable Adaptation is a five-year research programme looking at the measurement of adaptation to open up questions of accountability and ambition in adaptation finance. The programme is led by Dr Susannah Fisher and is a collaboration between a team at University College London and a consortium of international partners.
As climate hazards and risks increase in frequency and severity, the role of adaptation is vital for protecting progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. This urgent adaptation action will require a massive scaling up of adaptation finance.
However, adaptation investments have often been incremental and have not always reduced vulnerability. There is a need to strengthen accountability, both to those affected by climate change and to the international community providing finance.
Measurement frameworks and indicators are one tool of accountability and can be powerful. They can define the policy question at hand, embed social values, and promote visions of the future. Through an exploration of measurement, this project seeks to influence how climate finance is framed, implemented and evaluated to support more effective adaptation.
The programmes aims are to:
Advance academic and practical understanding of how ways of measuring adaptation shape implementation, ambition and accountability from the local to the global level.
Generate and pilot new ways of building accountability that respond to the urgency of the issue and the need for inclusion at different levels.
Provide evidence to support ongoing international negotiations around the global adaptation goal and the use of adaptation metrics within international climate finance and national adaptation plans.
Convene an open community of practice with research and policy communities building capabilities around accountability within adaptation.
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