The “International Platform on Adaptation Metrics” (IPAM) was launched in May 2020, by four founding members, to respond to the call of the participants to the international workshop held on November 22, 2019, in Morocco, on the topic of adaptation metrics. This meeting was the last of a series of four international meetings on adaptation metrics, organized under the impetus of the Moroccan Presidency of CoP22, from 2016 to 2019 in Morocco. These meetings put together an international community of practitioners from various economic sectors, international organizations, civil society, bilateral and multilateral donors, research & development institutions, and agencies of the United Nations system.
IPAM aims to become an international reference platform for adaptation metrics, across scales and sectors, and to co-develop metrics and tools going beyond the state of the art to respond to emerging adaptation needs. IPAM seeks also to create synergies among its members to refine and advance concepts in science, governance, management, project monitoring & evaluation, communication, capacity building and climate finance.