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The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events calls for strengthened disaster risk management, improved local practices for risk reduction and enhanced emergency response and rehabilitation. This is particularly necessary for those countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change.

Adaptive capacity can be enhanced when national strategies bridge disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. However, a number of barriers exist to to harnessing the synergies between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, including different institutional arrangements, separate national and international frameworks and inadequate integration into development and sectoral policies and programmes.

The formulation and implementation of NAPs can be one tool that national policy makers can use to expand and improve transition and linkages between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It can facilitate synergies in a country by helping to improve access to climate change information, integrate mutual concerns in sectoral planning and programming and share best practices and lessons learned.