Leveraging the National Adaptation Plan Process for Adaptation Communications

This report explores countries experiences leveraging the outputs and results of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process to develop Adaptation Communications (AdComs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).Adaptation communications (AdComs) present a means for communicating a clear and up-to-date overview of adaptation. As one of several reporting instruments under the UNFCCC, climate change decision-makers are carefully considering how an AdCom fits into their national approach to adaptation planning and implementation. In preparing an AdCom, countries should leverage the outputs and results of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process—and experience shows this can be equally true whether a country is in the early stages of the NAP process or several years into implementing its NAP.