At COP30, Parties adopted the Belém Adaptation Indicators—the first globally agreed set of indicators for tracking progress on resilience and adaptation under the GGA Framework. A decade after Paris, this marks a significant milestone for the Global Goal on Adaptation. But the process that produced them left important questions open: gaps in metadata and methodologies, uneven data availability, and capacity constraints that vary widely across national contexts.
With SB64 convening in Bonn, Parties are preparing to take the next steps from COP30. This webinar will unpack what was agreed at COP30 related to the GGA and what operationalizing the indicators will require technically and politically.
Attendees will leave with an understanding of:
- How the Belém Adaptation Indicators came to be
- The technical and political challenges to operationalize the indicators heading into SB64 and beyond
- What an ambitious SB64 outcome would be including the launch of a technical taskforce and the indicators’ contribution to the second Global Stocktake
Bringing together experts and negotiators, the webinar aims to build shared understanding and surface actionable priorities for Bonn.
Introduction
Chelsea Johnson
International Fellow, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Chelsea Johnson is an International Fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Her work encompasses issues related to climate change resilience, adaptation, and loss & damage, including in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Ms. Johnson also works on international and…
Presentation and Panel
Timo Leiter — Presenter
Distinguished Policy Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics
Dr Timo Leiter is a global thought leader on climate change adaptation working at the intersection between research, policy and implementation. At the global level, Timo has been participating in the UN climate change negotiations since 2015. In 2022 and 2023, he co-facilitated the workshop series under the work programme…
Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio
Senior Advisor for Adaptation and Resilience, UN Foundation
Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio has nearly twenty years of experience developing and implementing climate change adaptation and resilience programs. Immediately prior to joining the United Nations Foundation, she was a Senior Adaptation and Resilience Advisor with the World Resources Institute and an International Engagement Associate with the Food and Land…
Maria del Pilar Bueno
Uruguay
Kaveh Guilanpour — Moderator
Vice President for International Strategies, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Kaveh Guilanpour is the Vice President for International Strategies at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, overseeing the international aspects of the work of C2ES including in relation to the United Nations negotiations process and implementation of the Paris Agreement. Mr. Guilanpour has worked in the environmental sector in…