The assessment of progress towards achieving the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) is gaining concrete form: Two meetings in March 2025 achieved progress on the way to identifying indicators for the global adaptation targets under the UAE-Framework for Global Climate Resilience.

We are excited to announce the relaunch of adaptationcommunity.net! Since 2013, the platform has supported global efforts in climate change adaptation – now with a modernised design and improved user experience.

A newly launched policy brief titled “Agroecology: Connecting People, Land, Climate, and Biodiversity” is providing critical insights on the path toward sustainable agricultural systems. Developed by the Agroecology Coalition in partnership with GIZ, Biovision, CARI, and WWF, the policy brief was recently presented at a launch event that can be viewed here.

The NDC Partnerhisp and GIZ hosted a webinar offering insights on how policymakers can integrate the goals of the three Rio Conventions into their national policies.

At the ongoing United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP16 in Riyadh, experts gathered to discuss the critical role of agroecology in addressing land degradation and desertification challenges. The event featured the launch of a new GIZ factsheet detailing how agroecological approaches can support UNCCD objectives.

The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku, Azerbaijan, concluded with notable advances and persistent challenges.

GIZ, IISD & WWF developed a policy brief to support policymakers with practical recommendations on how to advance synergistic, just, and gender-responsive actions on climate and nature.

Ahead of this Triple COP autumn, GIZ, IISD & UFZ updated their thematic paper on legal agreements under the CBD and the UNFCCC.

GIZ, IUCN and IISD developed an e-learning course on the design and implementation of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) covering i. a. gender, governance, local and Indigenous knowledge, and biodiversity topics.

The June UN Climate Meetings (SB 60) for this year’s World Climate Conference (COP 29) were held from June 3-13, 2024, in Bonn. These negotiations brought together global actors to discuss urgent questions on climate change, necessary adaptation strategies, and their financing, thus setting the agenda for COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, this November.

In the run-up to the submission of the third round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), due in February 2025, the NDC Partnership and the UNFCCC Secretariat have launched a new online tool to help countries formulate their NDC 3.0 and promote synergies with other national policies.

Climate change poses a significant threat to the sustainability of agricultural and food systems, to the availability of natural resources and to the livelihoods of people and communities. In many rural areas around the world, the effects are particularly severe.

Here you can find a compendium of existing tools/methods/guides for climate change adaptation and mitigation in agri-food systems and an interactive product landscape that complements the compendium and gives a visual overview of and easy access to the tools as well as additional relevant documents.

For six years now, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and GIZ’s Global Programme ‘Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change’ have collaborated in their aim to human mobility as a consequence of the region’s increasing environmental challenges. A newly published article by the OECS describes how the partnership looked like and how the organisations took action through strategic thinking, capacity building, and publication of various knowledge products.

Our publication ‘Learning to live with climate change’ is now available in three languages! Read more about how the Global Programme “Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change” has been working in regions like the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, East Africa and in the Philippines. The study is available in English, German and French.

The GIZ’s Global Programme on Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change celebrated the end of the first Programme phase. For this, partners from the Philippines, East and West Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean came together at the GIZ Campus Röttgen in Bonn. The three-day long event took place from 24th until 26th October and incorporated a networking experience on the last day with experts from politics, decision-making, academia and civil society.

The newly developed eLearning course by GIZ in collaboration with UN University is now available! In this interactive self-paced course, policy makers, development professionals, researchers and students will learn how climate change influences human mobility. By introducing key concepts like climate related migration, disaster displacement, planned relocation and trapped populations, this training will build capacities needed to consider human mobility in the context of climate change (HMCCC) in your respective field of work. The training showcases diverse examples from different countries on the phenomena of HMCCC as well as options how to manage it.

Now available on Adaptation Community: The new movie series “Living Adaptation” showcases best practice examples of climate change adaptation measures in agriculture and rural development. It contains four short video clips presenting best practices from GIZ India, Madagascar, Ethiopia, and a regional project in southern Africa. The accompanying overarching movie, titled “Pathways to Climate Resilient Agri-Food Systems” and published by BMZ, briefly introduces the topic of climate change adaptation in agriculture and rural development more broadly – and gives a quick glimpse into the various country experiences.