Even as the world looks to step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change already locked in are just as important. The sixth edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report: The Gathering Storm looks at how the world is doing in adapting to these intensifying impacts.
Chapter 1. Setting the scene / Lars Christiansen -- Chapter 2. Framing the Adaptation Gap Report / Alexandre Magnan, Lars Christiansen, Henry Neufeldt -- Chapter 3. Global progress on adaptation planning / Annett Moehner, Maryam Navi, Fatin Tawfig, Motsomi Maletjane, Michal Nachmany -- Chapter 4. Global progress on adaptation finance / Paul Watkiss, Dipesh Chapagain, Pieter Pauw, Georgia Savvidou -- Chapter 5. Global progress on adaptation implementation / Timo Leiter, Nick Brooks, Lisa Schipper -- Chapter 6. Emerging consequences of COVID-19 on adaptation planning and finance Arjuna Dibley, Thom Wetzer -- Chapter 7. Outlook on global progress / Alexandre Magnan, Henry Neufeldt.

xix, 83 p. : ill., graphs, maps, tables

Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-83).

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