Taking stock of climate change adaptation in livestock systems requires effective tracking and reporting. The Paris Agreement establishes a Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) and encourages countries to report on their vulnerabilities, adaptation efforts, and outcomes. However, adaptation tracking in livestock systems is hindered by several challenges, including the lack of validated indicators and tools to support the assessment and comparison of adaptation progress across temporal and spatial scales.
The Tracking Adaptation in Livestock Systems (TAiLS) tool is designed to enable governments to track and report on climate change adaptation in the livestock sector. The TAiLS tool covers three dimensions that are fundamental to adaptation tracking: climatic hazards, climate change impacts, and adaptive capacity and actions. Through this tool, governments can analyze the changes in the three dimensions and their associated indicators and be able to develop statements about progress on climate change adaptation.