UNDP Adaptation Strategy
Linkages between Adaptation and the MDGs
The greatest climate change risks exist where both vulnerability and climate hazards are highest. UNDP will focus its efforts on these climate change 'hot spots' and draw upon an extensive package of adaptation services and resources in order to ensure that development gains are delivered where they are most needed — to those countries that are most at risk.
The adaptation mission of UNDP is to secure the Millennium Development Goals in the face of climate change impacts. UNDP identifies adaptation hot spots using a combination of top-down hazard information and bottom-up development information. For example, this map shows the relationship between the global distribution of hunger and select climate change hazards.
Foundational Principles
The UNDP adaptation programme is built upon the following overarching principles:
- The goal of pro-poor and pro-growth adaptation that encourages sustainable economic development and livelihoods in the face of climate change;
- The objective of climate-resilient development, including systemic changes to development processes.
- A key outcome is that climate change risks are integrated into national planning and poverty reduction efforts.
- Success will be measured using indicators and targets that reveal systemic and sector-wide policy changes.
- Identifying development priorities;
- Determining current and future climate risks and projected impacts on development;
- Identifying and designing adaptation opportunities; and
- Implementing and integrating climate change risks into ongoing processes and practices, including monitoring and evaluation.
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