Multilateral adaptation finance for systemic resilience: addressing transboundary climate risk
Explore an analysis of adaptation projects funded by 3 major multilateral climate funds, and discover the extent to which such funding supports projects addressing climate risks in more than one country.
Shortlisting Climate Change Adaptation Projects
This document shares an example from USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific’s experience working with India’s NABARD to design a checklist for selecting projects to be financed by the Adaptation Fund.
Quick Guide to Climate Change Adaptation Funds
This USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific Quick Guide is an easy to follow collection of 10 climate funds and initiatives available for financing adaptation activities in developing countries.
Ethiopia drought adaptation
This blog describes UNDP's experiences in Ethiopia as it faces its worst drought in 50 years and underlies the critical role that climate adaptation efforts play in sustaining livelihoods.
How are dedicated climate funds progressing towards impact?
This short update summarises results reported in 2015 by 14 funds which have collectively approved more than $8.7 billion for climate change projects in developing countries.
Adaptation Fund Projects in Action
VIDEO: An overview of Adaptation Fund projects under implementation all over the world.
Climate Finance Thematic Briefing: Adaptation Finance
This briefing provides an overview of finance flows and major funds supporting adaptation in 2015 and the geographical distribution of these funds.
Mitigation And Adaptation In The UNFCCC Debates
Tracking the topical shifts in the UNFCCC’s discussions between 1995 and 2013
Climate Adaptation In Bangladesh
How much is spent on country level adaptation projects? What types of projects are funded? And where are these projects?
The Status of Climate Finance at COP20, Lima
Introduction
Many UNFCCC stakeholders see climate finance as one of the linchpins holding together the entire climate negotiation process, for several reasons. First, climate finance...
Adaptation and development funding in Isiolo county
A pilot 'climate adaptation fund' has been designed to support community prioritised adaptation investments. The project is testing a structure for 'bottom-up' adaptation and development...
Multilateral adaptation finance
Abstact
This paper analyzes potential criteria to allocate international funding for adaptation to climate change, as a response to one of the main governance challenges of international...
Direct access to the Adaptation Fund: Lessons from accrediting NIEs in Jamaica and Senegal
Direct access to the Adaptation Fund: Lessons from accrediting NIEs in Jamaica and Senegal
The Political Dimension of Vulnerability
Abstract
As the availability of adaptation finance for developing countries increases, so does the need for a transparent way of prioritising countries for the allocation of money. It...
Adaptation funding for cities
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Adaptation funding is insufficient and needs a new angleIf consensus can be reached about anything these days, it is that funding for...
Lessons learned from Senegal NCAP Project
The example of work carried out in Senegal under the NCAP project to expand the country’s NAPA submissions beyond the initial primary sectors of agriculture, water resources and coast zone...
Financing Adaptation
An overview of some of the principles for effective adaptation funding, and gives a short overview of the Least Developed Countries Fund (LCDF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF).
Adaptation Fund: Enhancing resilient agriculture
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Project background and contextTraditional agricultural practices that communities rely on in the Solomon Islands have been placed under...
Adaptation Fund: Coastal Adaptation
Status: Approved
Project approved for funding by the Adaptation Fund Board, June 2010
Project DescriptionThe coastal regions of Senegal are home to over 75% of the population and...
Adaptation Fund: reducing floods and droughts
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Status: ApprovedProject approved for funding by the Adaptation Fund Board, June 2010
Project descriptionNicaragua suffers...
Adaptation Fund
The Adaptation Fund was established to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in de
