Adaptation finance is needed now more than ever. This Adaptation Finance Primer, co-developed with Climate Resilience for All, with funding from the ClimateWorks Foundation, 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.
The authors 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 they think the private sector could play a bigger role. Their goal is to empower practitioners to use the full spectrum of capital needed to reach people and communities most vulnerable to climate change.