For these countries, it will be extremely challenging to assess and communicate progress towards the aspirational, qualitative or non-time bound aims outlined in e.g. their NCs or INDCs. In addition, as adaptation is very context-specific, countries have different needs and objectives. Barriers to obtaining a clear view on progress towards national adaptation goals may not be a problem at a country level, but would impede the global stocktake from producing an assessment of progress on adaptation at a global scale, if this stocktake is based purely on information submitted by individual countries and is to be conducted in an aggregated manner (see Section 4). For developed countries, it will be important to show progress towards targets relating to climate finance, as well as to the balance of climate finance between mitigation and adaptation.