Opportunities and options for enhancing adaptation action through education and training, and public and youth participation - Technical paper 

Education and training, alongside public and youth participation, are key to enabling effective and inclusive adaptation to climate change. Education and training are needed to help people understand the changing climate and develop the skills to act on that knowledge, to minimize risk and vulnerability and boost their adaptive capacity and resilience. Public participation, meanwhile, is integral to an inclusive adaptation process that ‘leaves no one behind’. In that regard, given the disproportionate impact of climate change on young people, and the immense potential of young people to contribute to adaptation solutions, youth participation in adaptation planning and action warrants particular attention.

This technical paper examines opportunities and options for enhancing adaptation action through education and training, and public and youth participation, including associated challenges. It distills the key messages that emerged from the 2020 technical examination process on adaptation, including the technical expert meetings on adaptation held throughout the year.