Adaptation Communication Drafting Assistance Tool (AdComm-DAT)

Posted on: 6/19/2024 - Updated on: 6/19/2024

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CAKE Team

Overview

The Adaptation Communication Drafting Assistance Tool (AdComm-DAT) aims to support countries in formulating their adaptation communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Users can register for free and use AdComm-DAT to report on their country’s adaptation needs, progress and goals.

Adaptation communication is an important reporting instrument under the Paris Agreement. It was established to increase the visibility and profile of adaptation and its balance with mitigation, to inform the global stocktake and to enhance learning and understanding of adaptation needs and actions.

Under Article 7 of the Paris Agreement, governments are encouraged to periodically submit and update an adaptation communication (AdComm), which may include information on adaptation priorities, implementation and support needs, plans and actions. Countries may submit their adaptation communication, as appropriate, as a component of or in conjunction with other communications and/or documents, such as national adaptation plans (NAPs), national communications (NCs), biennial transparency reports (BTRs) or nationally determined contributions (NDCs) or as a standalone document.

AdComm-DAT supports countries that decide to prepare and submit their adaptation communication as a standalone document. The tool aims to offer non-prescriptive guidance and reduce the reporting burden to a minimum by providing a structure along the proposed elements of an adaptation communication, contained in decision 9/CMA.1 of the Paris rulebook. The elements defined in the annex of 9/CMA.1 can then be tailored to the specific countries’ needs.

Managing Organizations

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, GIZ, AdaptationCommunity.net

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