adaptation finance: a primer for practitioners

Climate Resilience for All partnered with Tailwind Climate and ClimateWorks Foundation to produce an adaptation finance guide for practitioners. We know that success in meeting our mission relies on accelerated and expanded finance and funding for the urgent work that reduces the risks and impacts of extreme heat to address the disproportionate burden borne by women.

 

Adaptation finance is needed urgently by climate-exposed communities across the globe. This deck presents potential sources of financing for climate adaptation and resilience projects as the world gets hotter, wetter, drier, and generally more vulnerable to the deadly and costly shocks and stresses of climate change. 

 

We present an expansive vision of the landscape and levers of climate adaptation finance, including lesser known or emerging funding mechanisms like Disaster Risk Finance and Loss & Damage, and highlighting where we think the private sector could play a bigger role. Our goal is to empower practitioners to use the full spectrum of capital needed to reach people and communities most vulnerable to climate change.

Every community, institution, company, and government will need to consider how to combine different sources of capital to fund and finance their own protection through adaptation interventions and projects that prevent and reduce the impacts of inevitable climate-driven disasters. We hope this Primer will accelerate financing and funding of adaptation projects in the face of increase climate threats.