Adaptation Gap Report

Image

Publication Date: December 2014

The report has been produced in response to requests by parties for an assessment on adaptation, complementary to the annual Emissions Gap report that UNEP has produced since 2010.

This first Adaptation Gap report provides an equally sobering assessment of the gap between adaptation needs and reality, based on preliminary thinking on how baselines, future goals or targets, and gaps between them might be defined for climate change adaptation. The report focuses on gaps in developing countries in three important areas: finance, technology and knowledge.

One of the strongest messages of the report is that ambitious and immediate mitigation action is the best insurance against an insurmountable future adaptation gap.