Global Goal on Adaptation

UNEP is releasing a new COP30 Factsheet Series exploring the most critical adaptation and mitigation themes shaping today’s global climate agenda. The series equips readers with clear, accessible insights into the debates, decisions, and expected outcomes across priority themes. This factsheet focuses on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA). The GGA is important for providing a system for tracking countries’ adaptation progress. The goal can be seen as the adaptation equivalent of the global mitigation goal to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C. However, unlike mitigation, adaptation progress cannot be measured by a single metric.