For each of the NAP’s priority sectors, the United Kingdom then assesses whether there is a policy in place to address the sector’s key climate risk (which may or may not be listed in the NAP), and provides an assessment of this policy’s implementation, as well as an evaluation of whether action to date has contributed to reducing the sector’s vulnerability to climate change (Figure 3). Output-based indicators capture the implementation of adaptation policies [and] show that governments and other stakeholders have kept word, but they do not show if vulnerability has been reduced.” A national-level adaptation framework is important as national governments play an essential role in facilitating adaptation through agenda setting, planning and budgeting (Cimato and Mullan, 2010).