Sri Lanka Launches National Adaptation Plan for Climate Change Impacts

Sri Lanka, a small island and developing nation, is vulnerable to climate change effects such as temperature rise, rainfall variability, and sea-level rise, affecting its key sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, water, human health, coastal and marine, ecosystems and biodiversity, infrastructure, and human settlements.

To address climate change impacts on its country, Sri Lanka has launched a National Adaptation Plan for Climate Change Impacts from 2016 to 2025. The report shows the most vulnerable sectors and how the government plans to adapt and protect its resources.  

Sri Lanka’s ability to adapt to climate change would depend on its vulnerability and adaptive capacity. Adaptive capacity refers to Sri Lanka’s knowledge and skills, technology, livelihood assets, and information.

The report shows significant gaps and barriers in all factors and a need to bolster the country’s adaptive capacity.

Sri Lanka’s climate adaptation plan also aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which government leaders adopted during the UN General Assembly.

The country also pledged its contributions to mitigating and adapting to climate change during the Paris Climate Agreement in April 2016.

Sri Lanka’s NAP covers the need for adaptation on two levels- adapting to critical sectors, enumerating its nine vulnerable sectors, and cross-cutting national needs to build climate resilience.

Read Sri Lanka’s National Climate Adaptation Plan by clicking on the link below: