At COP26, counties adopted the Glasgow Climate Pact, which calls for a doubling of finance to support developing countries in adapting to the impacts of climate change and building resilience. Glasgow also established a work programme to define a global goal on adaptation, which will identify collective needs and solutions to the climate crisis already affecting many countries.
Since 2011, under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a number of countries have developed National Adaptation Plans. Check if your country has one and what it says. Or get the latest updates on how countries are elaborating plans as part of national development strategies.
Supported by UNEP, infiltration ditches were built by the CityAdapt project in coffee farms in San Salvador to reduce flooding.
Supported by UNEP, infiltration ditches were built by the CityAdapt project in coffee farms in San Salvador to reduce flooding. CityAdapt
Making it happen
A number of efforts are underway to help people adapt to climate change. One is the global Adaptation Fund, which finances pioneering initiatives in developing countries. You can see if your country has a project. And watch how adaptation works for fisher people in Peru, who are combining traditional knowledge and technology to protect their livelihoods.
Watch as small farmers in Costa Rica develop climate-smart and resilient methods to adapt to floods and droughts, improving water and food security. Or take a journey to India’s Himalayan region where marginalized communities are managing climate pressures on water through practices such as spring rejuvenation, rainwater harvesting, drip irrigation and sprinklers.
Kiribati, a small island developing State that is highly vulnerable to climate change, has been among the earliest adopters of climate adaptation. It is improving the management of fisheries to safeguard livelihoods and food security and stepping up early warning systems for disasters.
In Ghana, women farmers are adapting to increasingly erratic rainfall by diversifying their livelihoods. With new skills, they are producing agricultural products such as soy milk and shea butter that fetch higher prices in local markets. Farmers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have adjusted crop choices to deal with droughts, such as by moving from apples to warmer weather peaches.
In the Maldives, declining rainfall and hotter summers have required constructing larger rainwater tanks and desalination facilities to process sea water, while setting up systems to carefully track water use and trigger early warnings of dry periods. Sri Lanka is repurposing an ancient system of water tanks to keep water flowing to farms and homes.
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