Adaptation gap report 2022

The seventh edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow looks at progress in planning, financing and implementing adaptation actions. At least 84 per cent of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have established adaptation plans, strategies, laws and policies – up 5 per cent from the previous year. The instruments are getting better at prioritizing disadvantaged groups, such as Indigenous peoples. 

The report's key message states that climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity, as seen throughout 2022: most viscerally in the catastrophic floods that put much of Pakistan under water. To avoid such impacts worsening, the international community must urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, as the 2022 edition of UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report: Too Little, Too Slow – Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk finds, the world must urgently increase efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate change that are already here and to those that are to come. Yet global efforts in adaptation planning, financing and implementation are not keeping pace with the growing risks.