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The document describes the CASTT Adaptation Academy, a UNFCCC program that provides multi-week training courses to strengthen developing countries' abilities to assess climate change impacts, develop adaptation strategies, and report commitments under the Paris Agreement. The Academy is run in collaboration with regional institutions and provides around 100 national representatives annually with advanced instruction on topics like vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning and monitoring. The 2021 sessions will be condensed and online due to COVID-19. The goal is to build countries' technical skills and foster expertise sharing through an adaptation community of practice.

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CASTT Adaptation Academy Flyer

The document describes the CASTT Adaptation Academy, a UNFCCC program that provides multi-week training courses to strengthen developing countries' abilities to assess climate change impacts, develop adaptation strategies, and report commitments under the Paris Agreement. The Academy is run in collaboration with regional institutions and provides around 100 national representatives annually with advanced instruction on topics like vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning and monitoring. The 2021 sessions will be condensed and online due to COVID-19. The goal is to build countries' technical skills and foster expertise sharing through an adaptation community of practice.

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ENHANCING

NATIONAL
CLIMATE
RESILIENCE

CLIMATE ACTION & SUPPORT


TRANSPARENCY TRAINING (CASTT)

ADAPTATION ACADEMY
UNFCCC CASTT Adaptation Academy
http://bit.ly/adaptation-academy

Photo by UN Climate Change / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Adaptation Action Enhancement Format


Program and Community of Practice • Four-weeks of in-person instruction held
annually at each regional institution
• Distinct guest lecturers with regional
Aiming to strengthen the global response to the and topical expertise
threat of climate change, the global community • 2021 version will be condensed and
adopted the Paris Agreement in 2015, and through it online due to the COVID-19 pandemic
established the enhanced transparency f ramework
for countries to identify, implement, and report their
commitments and planned actions for mitigating
Key Outcomes
• Advanced training of around 100
and adapting to climate change. national adaptation focal points and
climate policy decision makers per year
Developing countries continue to need capacity- • A f irst-of-its-kind adaptation action
building support to conduct their national climate enhancement community of practice
change assessments, and specif ically in the areas of
vulnerability and adaptation assessments, as well as Topics
the associated reporting. A more in-depth training, • Reporting on Impacts, risks, and
which allows developing countries to adequately plan vulnerabilities
and report upon the actions necessary to meet the • Developing adaptation strategies,
ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement, is needed. policies, plans, goals, and actions
• Monitoring and evaluation of adaptation
actions and processes
The CASTT Adaptation Academy is a program
providing multi-week training courses for national
climate focal points and ministerial representatives Get Involved
— particularly those f rom developing countries. The Contact us to f ind out how your
organization can increase countries’
Adaptation Academy is an off icial initiative of the
climate resilience by contributing to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate program.
Change (UNFCCC) operated in collaboration with key
academic and research institutions across the globe.
Alex Mauroner, Chief Operating Off icer, AGWA
[email protected]

Bhava Dhungana, Programme Off iccer, UNFCCC


Partners [email protected]

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