Accountable Adaptation ECR Workshop in London
We led an early career workshop on knowledge politics.
Accountable Adaptation at COP28
Several of the Accountable Adaptation team were at COP 28 following the negotiations around adaptation finance and the global goal on adaptation.
COP28: we need more accountability in adaptation
After early progress on the loss and damage fund and announcements on energy and health from COP 28 in Dubai, attention in the corridors in week 2 is turning to adapting to the impacts of climate change.
COP28 agreement on adapting to climate change kicks the real challenge down the road
The world is rapidly running out of time to limit temperatures to this level – a crucial threshold for many communities living in low-lying islands and delicate ecosystems such as coral reefs.
Accountable Adaptation at the 17th Community-Based Adaptation conference
Dharam Uprety, Nepal lead for the project, and Susannah Fisher led a session with practitioners on how they thought metrics shaped action.
Welcoming the new Accountable Adaptation team
We are very excited to have our new team joining the project. Biraj Adhikari, Jonathan Barnes and Aishath Green have all joined the project in the last few months from careers in universities, international organisations and policy institutes.
Team meeting in Kathmandu
Part of the team met in Kathmandu in November to take forward the research and policy engagement in Nepal.
Can we change our future through performance?
The findings around extreme heat are for a collaboration between our research programme on the role of knowledge in adapting to climate change, and the Wise Ram Theatre.
Paper: Adequacy and Effectiveness of Adaptation in the Global Stocktake
How can the concepts of adequacy and effectiveness of adaptation be operationalized in assessments of global progress on adaptation?
Paper: Ratcheting up effectiveness to improve the Global Stocktake process
The Paris Agreement rests on voluntary emissions reduction pledges but does not mandate that pledges are sufficiently ambitious to collectively limit warming to acceptable levels.
Paper: Much ado about nothing? Why adaptation measurement matters
Measuring the effectiveness of adaptation and tracking collective progress has received increasing attention across the domains of policy, finance and research.