RegionsAdapt

RegionsAdapt Report 2016. The online reporting procedure is operated through the CDP´s states and regions platform, where the members of the initiative must fill out sections 1 “Introduction” and 5 “Risks and Adaptation.” By reporting to RegionsAdapt, members are able to take part in a community
of regional government practitioners publicly disclosing the progress of their adaptation efforts for the first time on a global scale.
This document portrays the risk assessment and adaptation
responses of 27 regional governments that have fulfilled
their commitments and successfully disclosed their adaptive pathways. This group is comprised of 14 governments from the
Americas (10 of which are Latin American), 7 from Africa, 3 from Asia and Oceania, and 3 from Europe.
Additionally, this report provides ten recommendations for the future and encourages their implementation as soon as possible before 2020.

RegionsAdapt Report 2017.

35 governments reported to RegionsAdapt through CDP´s states and regions platform in 2017. Their combined population accounts for more than 234 million inhabitants.
All of them acknowledged that current and/or anticipated impacts of climate change present significant physical risks to their regions. Among these risks, 60% of disclosing governments experience or expect to be affected by changes in seasonality of rainfall, whose level of seriousness is considered either serious or extremely serious by most of them.
191 adaptation actions are been taking to reduce the vulnerability of citizens, businesses and infrastructure to the identified impacts of climate change.

We have delivered reports annually since the launch of RegionsAdapt. So far, there have been three RegionsAdapt reports, the last one is the RegionsAdapt 2018 Report: Multi-level Governance in Climate Adaptation.

RegionsAdapt reports include information regarding the most common risks that regions face in terms of adaptation. In addition, we highlight important adaptation actions that regions implement in order to face those risks. The type of risks that are reported are physical, socio-economic and water risks as well as their respective adaptation actions.

As the data disclosed by regional governments this year shows, more than half of those regions are already involved in the adaptation planning of their national governments and almost all of the disclosing regional governments work closely with their local counterparts. Due to their key position between the national and local level, regional governments promote the coordination and vertical integration of policies.

data on climate risks and adaptation through CDP’s States and Regions questionnaire. Each year, Regions4 publishes a summary of the data to inform about regional governments’ ambitious actions to adapt to climate change. The annual disclosure process helps RegionsAdapt members to better understand the risks they face from climate change, measure their progress and learn from each other’s adaptation actions.

In 2019, 28 RegionsAdapt members from 17 countries in each geographic region of the world disclosed their data, representing almost 200 million people, and covering more than 5,3 million km² of the world’s surface area.

This report examines the multi-level governance of climate adaptation action, focusing on the policies and processes that subnational governments are undertaking. It outlines the main findings of a survey with 33 subnational governments, one local and one national government, carried out by Regions4 and
RegionsAdapt. The analysis reveals common challenges and highlights achievements experienced by subnational governments in (i) planning, (ii) implementing, and (iii) monitoring, reporting and evaluating climate change adaptation policies and action.