Do you know your country's NAPs?

<p><span style="color: #34495e;"><span class="s2">So far, </span><a style="color: #34495e;" href="https://napcentral.org/submitted-naps"><span class="s3">over 50 countries</span></a><span class="s2"> from N</span><span class="s2">epal to the Dominican Republic</span><span class="s2"> have </span><a style="color: #34495e;" href="https://napcentral.org/submitted-naps"><span class="s3">submitted their NAPs</span></a><span class="s2"> to the UN central portal</span><span class="s2">. The proposals vary </span><a style="color: #34495e;" href="https://napcentral.org/nap-summaries"><span class="s3">in scope and ambition</span></a><span class="s2">, but they are all united by a collective sense of urgency: adjusting today to last until tomorrow. In an era where adaptation financing still lags behind mitigation, </span><a style="color: #34495e;" href="https://unfccc.int/files/adaptation/application/pdf/nap_overview.pdf"><span class="s3">NAP dev</span><span class="s3">elopment</span></a><span class="s2"> if not supported remains just words on paper even for the most detailed</span><span class="s2">. Updated guidelines would help standardize quality, improve financing pipelines, and put adaptation front and center as a development imperative. For vulnerable nation</span><span class="s2">s, it's not just policy reform;</span><span class="s2"> it's a matter of survival.</span></span></p>

Raymond Mwombeki