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Climate adaptation in India

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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has established the green climate fund, the adaptation fund and the fund for least developed countries (LDCs) to support developing countries and LDCs in their efforts to adapt to climate change. However, accessing these funds is challenging mainly because the interested countries have limited technical capacity to prepare effective proposals for fund applications. Further adaptation is not easily measurable, which makes it difficult to disburse the funds in a transparent, equitable and efficient manner. The 17th conference of the parties to the UNFCCC established the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process as a way to facilitate effective adaptation planning in LDCs and developing countries. NAPs should reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience, and should facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation in the countries' plans for economic development.

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