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CLIMATE HAZARDS AND CHANGES IDENTIFIED
  • Droughts
  • Sea level rise
  • Storms, hurricanes, cyclones
  • Wildfires
  • Heatwaves
  • Floods
  • Changes in precipitation patterns
How are NAP priorities structured

South Africa's NAP has a vision and four strategic objectives.

It has nine strategic interventions, 12 associated strategic outcomes, and 95 associated actions.

# of Specific Adaptation Actions Identified

95

Guiding Principles for the NAP Process
  • gender responsive
  • inclusive of vulnerable groups and communities
  • participatory
  • Ecosystem based, environmentally sustainable
  • guided by best-available science
  • Multisectoral
  • guided by Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge
  • Other: a country-driven approach; equity; people-centred; address capacity gaps; facilitate mainstreaming of adaptation; continuous, progressive, iterative process; transformative change
Is loss and damage mentioned?

Data reflects NAPs submitted to the UNFCCC as of

* The list of NAPs on the UNFCCC’s NAP Central includes sector-specific NAPs from Uruguay for four sectors (agriculture, cities and infrastructure, energy, and coastal sectors). Sector-specific NAPs are not included in the analysis as we are focusing on multi-sector NAP documents.

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