Learn how to use Climate Watch to gain insights on countries’ climate commitments, generate custom visuals, and access raw data for further analysis. This training focuses on our redesigned Country Profile pages, which features a new section on Adaptation.
7. Intro Climate Watch
CLIMATE WATCH IS USED WIDELY BY GOVERNMENTS
▸ Climate Watch data is used by 228 ministries from 79 countries and citied in 25 NDCs
Countries that cited Climate
Watch in their NDCs:
Interactive Graph: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/10137289
Bangladesh (x2)
Brunei
Ghana (x2)
Moldova (x2)
Nicaragua
Nigeria (x2)
Panama (x2)
South Korea (x2)
Switzerland (x2)
Thailand (x2)
Uganda (x2)
Honduras
Montenegro
Guinea
Gambia
Bolivia
10. EXPLORE NDC ADAPTATION DATA ON CLIMATE WATCH
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Source: https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ndcs-explore
11. WRI ANALYSIS: STATE OF ADAPTATION IN THE NDCS
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Adaptation analysis of 291 NDCs
submitted by 2021 and 6,770
prioritized actions to assess changes
between first and current round of
submissions.
Produced two working papers:
1.Summary findings of adaptation
NDC analysis
2.Case studies on process to
develop NDCs for Cambodia,
Rwanda, Colombia, and Fiji
Find them at wri.org
Full adaptation NDC dataset
published on Climate Watch
12. METHODOLOGY FOR ADAPTATION NDC ASSESSMENT
Intro Climate Watch
Developed 40+ indicators for
assessing changes in adaptation
elements of NDCs
Four components informing
assessment:
1. Elements of adaptation
communications
2. Critical systems and sectors
for prioritized adaptation
actions
3. Losses and damages
4. Transformative adaptation
Result – Qualitative assessment framework to analyze
NDC adaptation components using nine elements:
1. Ownership
2. Alignment
3. Latest information
4. Coverage of critical systems
5. Implementation readiness of actions
6. Monitoring and evaluation
7. Equity and inclusion
8. Losses and damages
9. Transformative adaptation
13. KEY FINDINGS FROM ASSESSMENT
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Countries are becoming more detailed and
ambitious with their NDC adaptation
components…
…But more work is needed for their
implementation.
14. USING CLIMATE WATCH FOR ADAPTATION NDC ANALYSIS
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Overview of features for using adaptation
data on Climate Watch:
1. Explore NDCs – global map of
adaptation indicators
2. Country NDC pages – dive deeper
into the data
3. Custom comparison – compare
across countries and NDC
submissions with ease
4. Country profiles – snapshot
overview of adaptation actions
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Editor's Notes
Introduction by the person from the external organization
Purpose of the meeting
WRI is a global think tank, and one thing that WRI does is to work on Data.
We are leading the Climate Watch platform that focuses on everything related to Climate Change commitments, and GHG emissions, but we also have plenty of other platform and resources focused on different topics, such as our Global Forest Watch which focuses on forests, deforestation, etc. and other platforms on Energy, Water, etc.
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on Climate Change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris, December 2015, and entered into force on 4 November 2016.
It’s goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to preindustrial levels.
The Paris Agreement works on a 5-year cycle of increasingly ambitious climate action carried out by countries. In every cycle, countries submit their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), communicating the actions they will take to reduce their Greenhouse Gas emissions in order to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Long-Term Strategies
To better frame the efforts towards the long-term goal, the Paris Agreement invites countries to formulate and submit by 2020 long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS).
LT-LEDS provide the long-term horizon to the NDCs. Unlike NDCs, they are not mandatory. Nevertheless, they place the NDCs into the context of countries’ long-term planning and development priorities, providing a vision and direction for future development.
Net-Zero targets
In addition, countries are encouraged to adopt a Net-Zero target by mid century.
https://www.wri.org/insights/net-zero-ghg-emissions-questions-answered
So what is CW?
It is a website. A hub with 100s of credible datasents, and 100 of thousands of data points. A user friendly visualization tool that provides a place for quick insights as well as long deep dives.
We offer open data on countries past and future GHG emissions, and granular information on countries climate targets, such as nationally determined contributions, long term strategies, policies, and so on.
Our goal is to bring transparency, but also make your work possible and easier to help everyone ultimately drive climate actions.
Getting insights that would not have been possible just looking at the PDFs that countries submit to the UNFCCC.
A big part of our work this year is to make climate commitments more transparent and accessible. We are an informational platform,in the sense that we don’t make suggestions on what each country should do, but we provide the data so that you can make informed decisions yourself.
We are supported by a group of reputable organizations that help us bring together the most comprehensive data on GHG, NDCs, LTS targets on the web, as well as funders who are key in developing the tool.
Investment decisions
Private sector action, planning and how it can align with national targets
Updating of NDCs, comparing it with others
Planning for implementation
Reporting and transparency
Investment decisions
Private sector action, planning and how it can align with national targets
Updating of NDCs, comparing it with others
Planning for implementation
Reporting and transparency
Component 1 – UNFCCC guidance in Annex to Decision 9/CMA.1
Component 2 – Global Commission on Adaptation’s Adapt Now report
Component 3 – Work plan of the UNFCCC’s Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage
Component 4 – Based on previous WRI work on transformative adaptation in F&NS system, building on IPCC’s 2014 definition of the term
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