Policy
Issue 14: Mutirão or Mirage. Did COP30 Deliver the Metric System of Misery?
Unpacking the “historic" compromise at COP30, where nations finally agreed on a yardstick for adaptation after a decade of delay. With 59 new indicators but no binding finance mechanism, we explore how a back-room political deal overrode years of technical consensus, creating a framework for documenting the climate crisis while remaining stubbornly inadequate at resolving it.
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What Exactly are the 59 Belém Adaptation Indicators? A Categorised List and Analysis of All Indicators
Documenting the Belém Adaptation Indicators’ journey from 5,339 to 59 metrics. The long-awaited operational tool for the Global Goal on Adaptation, with the initial long list of thousands now refined into a concise group of voluntary metrics, provides the first roadmap for measuring the world’s collective resilience.
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Roundup in Resilience: November 21, 2025
COP30 negotiators haggled over 100 indicators to measure progress while starving frontline communities of resources, Canada committed CAD$263 million to IFAD's smallholder farmer adaptation, a landmark FAO-UNDP report on agrifood found that only 16% of measures in NAPs address climate impacts or vulnerable populations, and a call to triple adaptation finance commitments meets developed world barriers.
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Issue 10: Are Existing Climate Adaptation Standards Fit For Purpose or Just Performance Art
Exploring the uncomfortable truth about climate adaptation standards. Five years into ISO 14090, organisations can demonstrate full compliance without proving they're any more resilient. As the effectiveness of adaptation projects drops sharply beyond 1.5°C warming, the stakes for getting measurement right have never been higher.
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Roundup in Resilience: August 29, 2025
Brazil secured Amazonian support for a $125 billion forest fund, World Water Week put water at the heart of the climate fight, attribution science showed climate change made Mediterranean wildfires 10 times more likely, warming European waters force a great fish migration, and a 40-year study revealed South American forests can't keep up with warming.
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Issue 4: Innovation in Adaptation Finance - What New Models Are Emerging?
The novel models aiming to bridge the mammoth climate adaptation financing gap, with blended finance demonstrating a crowding in effect, and adaptation finance on a growth trajectory.
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Week in Review: August 15, 2025
Zambia hosts the UN's largest adaptation gathering as African youth demand direct climate finance, politically green German cities receive most of the country's adaptation funding, ASEAN wrestles with resilience through nature, and grassroots mapping tools to crowdsource climate resilience
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Issue 3: Tipping Points - What Happens When Earth's Lungs Stop Breathing
Amazon dieback and what this means for the future of food, money and migration flows across Amazonia, but bright sparks in significantly reduced rates of deforestation and raising a mega fund for rainforest protection
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