Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape: Current Progress on Three Key Capacities for Climate Resilience

The Paris Agreement acknowledged the importance of climate change adaptation and climate resilience by establishing the global goal for adaptation as “enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change”. The Paris Agreement also established a ‘global stocktake’ to regularly assess progress towards the purpose of the Agreement, including the global adaptation goal. The importance of climate resilience is recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. However, we lack a clear understanding of the progress countries have made toward building the capacities they need to be climate resilient.1