This explainer offers a concise overview of the current state of negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) after of SB62 in June 2025, including summarised information on how Parties, experts, and other actors are working to develop indicators and address a range of cross-cutting and emerging issues.

The GGA was established by the Paris Agreement (1/CP.21,Article 7) as a global goal of enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate adaptation response in the context of the temperature goal.

Operationalisation of the GGA began with a two-year Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh work programme launched at COP26 (7/CMA.3). It continued with the adoption of the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience at COP28 and the launch of another two-year work programme, the UAE-Belém work programme 2024-2025 (2/CMA.5).

At CMA6, it was decided that the final outcome of the UAE-Belém work programme may include a manageable set of no more than 100 indicators that (a) are globally applicable with a view to informing an analysis of relevant global trends; (b) constitute a menu that captures various contexts of adaptation action; and (c) are designed to enable assessment of progress towards achieving the different components of the targets.

Parties are expected to consider the outcome of the work of the experts and adopt a decision that establishes a final set of GGA indicators at CMA7 in Belém (November 2025).