The Conference of the Parties,
Recalling decisions 1/CP.16, 3/CP.17, 5/CP.17, 12/CP.18, 18/CP.19, 3/CP.20, 1/CP.21, 4/CP.21, 6/CP.22, 8/CP.24, 7/CP.25, 3/CP.26, 9/CP.27, 1/CMA.5 and 2/CMA.5,
Recognizing the specific needs and special circumstances of developing country Parties, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change,
Acknowledging the significant need for adaptation finance, technology transfer and capacity-building for the formulation and implementation of national adaptation plans in developing countries,
1. Acknowledges that developing country Parties have made some progress in the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans since the assessment of such progress at the forty-eighth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation, noting that they continue to face limitations in this regard;
2. Notes with concern that developing country Parties continue to face challenges in accessing finance, technology transfer and capacity-building support for formulating and implementing national adaptation plans;
3. Welcomes the submission, between 1 January 2023 and 18 November 2025, of national adaptation plans by Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Ecuador, Haiti, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Somalia, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Viet Nam, Zambia and Zimbabwe, bringing the total number of national adaptation plans submitted by developing country Parties to 71, as well as the submission of sectoral adaptation plans and other outputs related to the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans by developing country Parties and updated national adaptation plans by Burkina Faso and Grenada during the same period;
4. Also welcomes the submission, between 1 January 2023 and 18 November 2025, of national adaptation plans by developed country Parties, namely Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America;
5. Recalls that the objectives of the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans are to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change by building adaptive capacity and resilience; and to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant new and existing policies, programmes and activities, in particular development planning processes and strategies, within all relevant sectors and at different levels, as appropriate;
6. Acknowledges that the two assessments of progress in the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans to date, one conducted in 2015, resulting in decision 4/CP.21, and one in 2018, resulting in decision 8/CP.24, found that gaps and needs in the process to formulate and implement NAPs remain;
7. Reiterates that enhanced action on adaptation should be undertaken in accordance with the Convention and the Paris Agreement, should follow a country-driven, gender-responsive, participatory and fully transparent approach, taking into consideration vulnerable groups, communities and ecosystems, and should be based on and guided by the best available science and, as appropriate, traditional and Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, and by gender-responsive approaches, with a view to integrating adaptation into relevant social, economic and environmental policies and actions, where appropriate;
8. Notes the importance of involving Indigenous Peoples, and local communities in developing and implementing adaptation action and of incorporating traditional knowledge, Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, local knowledge systems, and ecosystem-based adaptation and nature-based solutions into national adaptation plans, as appropriate;
9. Notes with concern that funding provided to developing country Parties for the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans through the operating entities of the Financial Mechanism, bilateral and multilateral programmes, and other channels, remains inadequate and that the resulting significant financial gap remains a barrier to the effective and timely implementation of national adaptation plans;
10. Also notes with concern that, despite efforts made by relevant actors to streamline and simplify access to finance for the formulation and implementation of national adaptation plans, delayed access to such finance continues to significantly hinder progress in adaptation action and resilience, including towards achieving the global goal on adaptation;
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