Sharing Adaptation Failure to Improve Adaptation Outcomes

Sharing lessons is critical for ensuring that finite funding for climate change adaptation is deployed in ways that provide the most value and impact. Successes are celebrated, but failures are habitually obscured, leaving a major knowledge base untapped. This commentary calls for the urgent sharing of failures as a source of critical learning.

Authors:

RossWestoby¹ Mohammad FeisalRahman² Karen E.McNamara³ SaleemulHuq⁴ RachelClissold³ Mizan R.Khan⁴