Andre Ferreira

Document Type

Research Project

Publication Date

Fall 9-28-2025

Abstract

This policy paper shall highlight the need for COP30 negotiators to adopt a Transboundary Adaptation Compact (TAA), a rights-based framework meant to coordinate climate adaptation across shared resources, mobilize finance, and manage the growing challenges of ecocide risks/cross-border migration. While shared bodies of water provide crucial resources for billions of people globally, their international governance is often fragmented. The climate crisis is compounding already existing tensions over water allocations that emerge from lack of cooperation between nation-states, threatening ecocide in river deltas, wetlands, and mangroves. Therefore, this paper aims to draw from existing case studies of successful regional cooperation, such as the cross-border early-warning system that exists within the Karamoja Cluster and the Drin River Basin flood risk project (Adaptation Fund, 2022). These are prime examples of how regional agreements successfully protect at-risk communities from climate disasters and ecocide and should therefore be expanded within the global community. This sort of cooperation should become the norm in how bodies of freshwater across nation-states are managed. The following policy paper shall outline policy options, implementation pathways, and monitoring indicators that should be implemented to ensure that transboundary adaptation is both effective and inclusive.

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