What are NAPAs and where can completed NAPAs be accessed?
• Communicate information relating to the vulnerabilities and adaptation needs of the LDCs through a simple and direct channel; • Identify priority activities that respond to the urgent and immediate needs of LDCs with regards to adaptation to climate change; • Offer a platform to create national, country-owned plans. Click here to access NAPAs submitted to the UNFCCC secretariat to date 7. What are the rationale behind NAPAs? The rationale for developing NAPAs rests on the high level of vulnerability and low adaptive capacity of the LDCs. Any delay in addressing vulnerabilities means increased vulnerability and/or increased adaptation costs at a later stage. However, before the NAPA process was established there was no avenue through which LDCs could identify and report their urgent adaptation needs. Prior to this the LDCs could only communicate their vulnerability and adaptation needs through their national communications, which are elaborate, time-intensive documents that are not de
