Second ARA submission (2022) to the UNFCCC global stocktake

Summary

The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is committed to achieving a new paradigm of action-oriented research to inform effective adaptation to reduce the risks from climate change, particularly for countries and communities that are most vulnerable – at the scale and urgency demanded by science. The ARA has 157 members representing research institutions, non-governmental and grassroot organisations, private sector firms, intergovernmental organisations as well as philanthropic and bilateral funders.

The ARA Secretariat is pleased to submit this update to our initial submission containing a compilation of views of ARA members and ARA micrograntees obtained through a survey and interviews/focus groups, as well from discussions at sessions of the Regional Resilience Hub events held for Africa, South Asia and Latin America (19 September – 13 October 2022).

This submission is made in partnership with ARA members that collaborated in collecting views from the ground, specifically the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, the International Institute of Sustainable Development, the Global Resilience Partnership and South South North.

All these engagements focused on better understanding the adaptation realities on the ground and how practitioners and researchers are currently able to contribute data and measures from the ground to the Global Stocktake (GST).

This submission is focused on the adaptation aspects of the GST but touches on issues of finance, fairness and equity. The submission is structured in two parts: first we present what adaptation progress practitioners are seeing on the ground, and second we focus on considerations for the integration with national systems to feed into adaptation measurements in the GST.