Awaza Programme of Action - Overview

PA4: Climate Resilience & Adaptation

Enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change and disasters

4: Enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change and disasters

  • Target 4.01.01: Landlocked developing countries that have not yet done so to have in place national adaptation plans, policies and planning processes by 2025 and to have progressed in implementing them by 2030.

  • Target 4.01.02: Strengthen the support for the implementation of adaptation projects and programmes in landlocked developing countries, in line with the global goal on adaptation and the United Arab Emirates Framework for Global Climate Resilience, as appropriate.

  • Target 4.02.01: Reduce disaster risk in landlocked developing countries through urgent and full implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, including the call to action contained in the political declaration of the high-level meeting on the midterm review of the Sendai Framework.14

  • Target 4.02.02: Embed disaster risk reduction at the core of development policies and investments for structural economic transformation in landlocked developing countries.

  • Target 4.02.03: Develop and strengthen local, national and regional strategies and platforms for disaster risk reduction to achieve the priorities for action and targets of the Sendai Framework.

  • Target 4.02.04: Support and reinforce, as appropriate, the existing comprehensive multi-hazard early warning systems and comprehensive multi-hazard crisis mitigation and resilience-building measures for landlocked developing countries.

  • Target 4.03.01: Mobilize an increased amount of adaptation finance to landlocked developing countries.

  • Target 4.03.02: Scale up capacity-building and technology transfer to landlocked developing countries to address climate change.

  • Target 4.04.01: Strengthen disaster and climate risk analysis as an integral part of resilient infrastructure development and maintenance policies, plans and programmes.

  • Target 4.04.02: Continue to provide financial and technical assistance to landlocked developing countries for building and maintaining nationally and regionally integrated, quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient as well as climate- and disaster-resilient infrastructure in sectors such as transport, energy and information and communications technology.

  • Target 4.05.01: Promote consideration of the needs, priorities and vulnerabilities of the landlocked developing countries in the new funding arrangements, including a fund, for responding to loss and damage.

  • Target 4.06.01: Significantly enhance support to halt and reverse biodiversity loss in the landlocked developing countries, including through the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

  • Target 4.06.02: Ensure the effective restoration by 2030 of degraded terrestrial and inland water ecosystems in landlocked developing countries, in order to enhance their biodiversity and ecosystem functions, ecological integrity and connectivity.

Goals

  • Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
    Weak  
  • Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
    Strong  
  • Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
    Weak  
  • Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
    Strong  
  • Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
    Strong  
  • Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
    Strong  
  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
    Weak  
  • Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
    Strong  
  • Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
    Strong  
  • Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
    Strong  
  • Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
    Strong  

Targets

  • Target 1.5: By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters.
    Strong   Strong   Economic   Environmental   Social  
  • Target 2.5: By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 3.d: Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.
    Strong   Economic   Environmental   International  
  • Target 6.6: By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.
    Strong   Strong   Social  
  • Target 9.4: By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities.
    Weak   Social  
  • Target 9.a: Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.
    Strong   International  
  • Target 11.1: By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums.
    Weak  
  • Target 11.3: By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries.
    Strong   Environmental   Governmental  
  • Target 11.4: Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
    Weak   Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 11.5: By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Environmental   International  
  • Target 11.b: By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Economic   Social  
  • Target 11.c: Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials.
    Strong   International  
  • Target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Economic   International  
  • Target 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.
    Strong   Social  
  • Target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
    Weak  
  • Target 13.a: Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible.
    Strong   Strong   Economic   Social   International  
  • Target 13.b: Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities.
    Weak  
  • Target 15.1: By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements.
    Strong   Social  
  • Target 15.2: By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally.
    Strong   Social   International  
  • Target 15.3: By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world.
    Strong   Social  
  • Target 15.4: By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development.
    Strong   Social  
  • Target 15.5: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species.
    Strong   Social  
  • Target 15.9: By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts.
    Weak   Social  
  • Target 15.a: Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems.
    Weak   Economic   Social   International  
  • Target 15.b: Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation.
    Strong   Social   International  
  • Target 17.7: Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.
    Strong   International  

Indicators

  • No alignments!

Goals

  • Goal 1.1: Enhance inclusive, equitable and sustainable economic growth.
    Strong   Aspiration 1.   Moonshot 1: Ev  
  • Goal 1.2: Increase Economic Resilience.
    Strong   Aspiration 1.   Moonshot 1: Ev  
  • Goal 1.5: Increase investments in blue economy.
    Strong   Aspiration 1.   Moonshot 1: Ev  
  • Goal 1.6: Enhance resilience to Climate Change and disaster risks for sustainable and socio-economic development.
    Strong   Aspiration 1.   Moonshot 1: Ev  
  • Goal 7.2: Enhance Africa's capacity for financing her development.
    Strong   Aspiration 7.   Moonshot 7: Af  

Targets

  • Target 1.1.10: Households’ access to electricity is increased to 80%.
    Strong  
  • Target 1.1.11: The proportion of population with access to safe drinking water is increased to 95%.
    Strong  
  • Target 1.1.12: The proportion of population with access to improved sanitation facilities is increased to 80%.
    Strong  
  • Target 1.6.1: Reduce losses and damages from disasters and climate change to at-most 5% of GDP.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 1.6.2: At least 30% of farmers, pastoral and fisher households have improved their resilience capacity to climate shocks, other shocks and weather-related risks..
    Strong   Strong  
  • Target 1.6.4: Increase land under forest cover by 10%.
    Strong   Strong  
  • Target 1.6.5: Full operationalisation of regional frameworks on climate change and resilience.
    Strong  

Indicators

  • No alignments!

Goals

  • Goal 2: Leveraging the power of science, technology, and innovation to fight against multidimensional vulnerabilities and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
    Weak   Access to mode   Science, techn   Promoting priv  
  • Goal 3: Supporting structural transformation as a driver of prosperity.
    Weak   Productive cap   Infrastructure   Connecting lea   Support for pr  
  • Goal 5: Addressing climate change, environmental degradation, recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and building resilience against future shocks for risk-informed sustainable development.
    Strong   Building susta   Climate adapta   Access to fina  

Targets

  • Target 2.01.03: Promote the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms, including digital and environmentally sound technologies, to least developed countries..
    Strong  
  • Target 3.02.01: Significantly expand, upgrade and maintain and gain access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport infrastructure and national and cross-boundary connectivity and ensure that all forms of transport infrastructure are maintained through closing the missing links and strengthening institutional capacities to manage transport services..
    Strong   Strong  
  • Target 5.02.01: Support the full formulation and implementation of national adaptation plans, including integrated and strategic adaptation action at the national and local levels by all least developed countries, making use of the Green Climate Fund and existing initiatives such as the National Adaptation Plan Global Network and the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility..
    Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 5.02.02: Develop and strengthen national and regional platforms and strategies for disaster risk reduction to take action to achieve the targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction..
    Strong   Strong   Strong  
  • Target 5.02.03: Support and reinforce, as appropriate, the existing comprehensive multi-hazard early warning system and comprehensive multi-hazard crisis mitigation and resilience-building measures for least developed countries..
    Strong  
  • Target 5.02.04: Continue to support the development and implementation of adaptation communications, strategies and plans, including those that may be included as components of nationally determined contributions and long-term strategies under the Paris Agreement..
    Strong   Strong  
  • Target 5.03.01: Recognizing the outcomes of the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change regarding delivering on the goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion in climate finance per year, scale up support for developing countries, including least developed countries..
    Strong  
  • Target 5.03.02: The provision of scaled-up financial resources should be intended to achieve a balance between adaptation and mitigation, taking into account country-driven strategies..
    Strong  
  • Target 5.03.03: Increase climate finance provided for adaptation and resilience, in particular for vulnerable countries, including least developed countries..
    Strong   Strong  
  • Target 5.03.04: Continue to support the implementation of national adaptation plans and national adaptation programmes of action of least developed countries under the Green Climate Fund and other climate-relevant funds under the Global Environment Facility, including the Least Developed Countries Fund, the Special Climate Change Fund and the Adaptation Fund..
    Strong   Strong  
  • Target 5.03.05: Increase financing for nature-based solutions or ecosystem-based approaches for climate mitigation and adaptation..
    Strong  

Indicators

  • No alignments!