National and international legal and policy frameworks and instruments support the planning and implementation of adaptation and climate risk management across scales, especially when combined with guidelines for action . Nationally Determined Contributions  have been drivers of national adaptation planning, with cascading effects on sectors and sub-national action, especially in developing countries . Nearly all developing countries ) that included an adaptation component in their NDCs consider adaptation the most urgent aspect of their national climate change response . A steady increase in national and sub-national laws, policies and regulations that mandate reporting and risk disclosure has promoted adaptation response across public agencies, private firms and community organisations . Greater adaptation is present where national climate laws and policies require adaptation action from lower levels of government and include guidelines on how to do so  .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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