It was estimated that before 2016, Adaptation received worldwide barely 6% of global climate finance and 17% of public climate finance, and even if these financial resources were scarce, the little that existed struggled to get mobilized.

The main reason given for non-sufficient mobilization of finance lied in the difficulty to quantify adaptation, underlying the lack of consensus on adaptation metrics.

The Scientific Committee of COP 22 made thus a priority in organizing the first international conference on adaptation metrics in Skhirate on September 27, 2016.

The aim of the conference was to agree on criteria and indicators suitable for assessing adaptation projects in the eye of climate finance, and the conference was articulated in four panels, discussing the opportunities and challenges for the financial sector, the possibility of measuring adaptation through its impact on resilience, the linking of adaptation with the sustainable development goals and the sectoral approach of adaptation to climate change.

Click here to download the concept note of the 2016 first International Conference on Adaptation Metrics

Click here to download the program of the 2016 first International Conference on Adaptation Metrics

Click here to download the submission to the UNFCCC

Click here to see the presentations of panel 1

Click here to see the presentations of panel 2

Click here to see the presentations of panel 3

Click here to see the presentations of panel 4