Breakout Session:

How Can the NAP

Process Enhance the

NDCs by 2020?

We’ve got some ideas.

About the

Goal is to enhance national adaptation

planning and action in developing

countries

Established in 2014 @ COP20 in Peru

Funding from Germany, United States,

Canada and Austria

Participation: 1100+ participants from

123 countries – including 11 donors

Governance:

Steering Committee

Secretariat (IISD)

Management Team (US State Dept, GIZ)

The

Network’s

Activities

Facilitating sustained

South-South peer learning

and exchange

Supporting national-level

action by providing

technical support to

countries

Enhancing bilateral

support

The NAP

Process

A domestic process that integrates

climate adaptation into development

planning and budgeting at national,

sectoral and sub-national levels.

The Role of the

National Adaptation

Plan (NAP) process in

NDC implementation

Anika Terton

June 12th, 2019

Global NDC Conference, Berlin

What are we talking about?

NAP NDC

NAP: National process to

identify medium- and

long-term adaptation

needs and put in place

strategies to address

them.

NDC: A country’s pledge

for meeting the goals of

the Paris Agreement,

including on adaptation.

What is

the link

between

NAPs and

NDCs?

• NDCs → goal-setting on

adaptation: Set out the high-level

vision, objectives and needs a country

will address through its adaptation

efforts

• NAPs → vehicle for NDC

implementation: nationally-driven

processes for integrating adaptation

into planning and implementing

adaptation priorities outlined in NDCs

Where to start?

Range of approaches

NAP folded into NDC

Adaptation notin NDC

Adaptation in NDC…but unsure if/how

it links to NAP

NAP mandated by / recognised

as implementationvehicle in NDC

Keep themseparate

Have themclosely aligned

Why are

we talking

about it?

• 132 countries submitted NDC with

adaptation information

• Raise the profile of adaptation –

Paris Agreement → political support, $

• Build on what’s been done:

leverage the experience, expertise,

investments in adaptation

• Efficiency: Streamline, coordinate,

avoid duplication, lessen the burden

• Explore adaptation-mitigation

links: putting goals beside each other

in one place

What are

countries

saying?

• Most countries recognize that

there should be links and aspire to

strategic or systematic alignment

between the NAP and their NDC and

recognize links to other framework

(e.g. SDGs, DRR) to streamline and

minimize burden

• Recognition that NDCs might be

an opportunity for adaptation,

particularly in terms of profile and

access to resources

• But links are still largely

theoretical and harder to realize

Challenges

Adaptation Communications

Political: Who’s driving the process

Institutional: Who’s responsible for

NAP vs NDC

Timing: national policy context

Coordination fatigue

2020

Update of

the NDCs

Use the NAP

process to

inform the

development of

future NDCs’

adaptation

information

2020

Update of

the NDCs

Use the NAP

process to

improve the

quality of the

adaptation

information in

the NDC

2020

Update of

the NDCs

Use the NAP

process to add

value and

enhance your

country’s NDC

adaptation goal

napglobalnetwork.org

Twitter: @NAP_Network