Highlights
The Belém Adaptation Indicators have strong potential to improve global assessment of climate adaptation. Policymakers must ensure that the indicators serve as a learning tool to accelerate adaptation efforts rather than a reporting burden that distorts national priorities. Future negotiations and technical processes should refine the indicators based on empirical data and pilot application to serve as a robust, long-term tool for assessing the 11 targets under the global goal on adaptation.
Recommendations
- Prioritize refining the indicators into an effective assessment tool in future negotiations and related technical workstreams.
- Refine the indicators, along with their metadata and methodologies, based on experiences gained from testing them.
- Combine indicators with qualitative information on good practices and pursue assessment approaches that integrate with those of other sustainable development policy agendas.
