adaptation finance

Research shows that women entrepreneurs in Africa are more vulnerable to climate change than their male counterparts for at least three key reasons. Kate Gannon sets out the findings and solutions in this commentary. Read more

his article assesses GCF’s commitment to the local delivery of adaptation finance and identifies the key barriers to GCF’s achievement of this commitment. The analysis finds that although GCF’s policies and communications fully commit to funding local level adaptation, three key barriers still prevent it from delivering finance to the local level. Read more

Many of the people and communities that are most vulnerable to climate change and environmental degradation are those who are... Read more

Adapting to climate change impacts and risks and improving how we manage them is crucial. Part of this lies in financing. In this post for the Sustainable Finance Leadership series, Emma Howard Boyd of the Environment Agency describes challenges and progress in financing climate resilience in the UK and the wider world. Read more

Using a representative sample of the UK population, the authors of this paper use a discrete choice experiment to explore the way in which distributional considerations drive respondent decisions in two dimensions: (a) among recipients of adaptation finance in recipient developing countries, and (b) among those who contribute to this finance (via taxation). Read more

Effective management of slow-onset impacts such as coastal erosion, desertification and sea level rise and their often-transformative impacts on communities... Read more

Drawing on relevant global experience, this paper investigates recent approaches to planned relocation of communities as one possible response to climate change impacts. Read more

Jonathan Boston, Architesh Panda and Swenja Surminski suggest a series of principles to guide pre-emptive, fair and effective funding systems for planned relocation in response to slow-onset climate change impacts. Read more

The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the need to invest much more in pre-disaster risk reduction and preparedness for a range of risks, including climate change and its accompanying hazards such as flooding. But what, asks Swenja Surminski, does this kind of investment need to consider in practice – and why is ‘resilience’ not already widely taken into account when making policy and investment decisions? Read more

This article reviews the economic and analytical challenges of adaptation to climate change. Read more