climate finance
Brief: Fostering complementarity: how development and climate financiers can scale up locally led adaptation
This brief, written by SEI researchers and World Bank experts, is meant to inform adaptation financiers, the broader community of adaptation scholars, and practitioners in their efforts to scale up support for LLA.
Brief: Shifting climate adaptation finance to local communities through effective intermediaries
This briefing highlights how effective intermediaries, such as the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA), can shift climate adaptation finance to local communities, ensuring resources reach women, Indigenous Peoples, and other marginalised groups to advance equitable, locally led climate action.
Long read: Finance for climate adaptation in the most vulnerable places… Time for a major rethink?
Rewriting the rules on how climate adaptation and resilience are supported in the most exposed and vulnerable communities
Scaling climate finance UN CC:e-Learn course
The Scaling Climate Finance e-course aims to increase participants’ knowledge and understanding of the climate finance system.
Finance for Locally-Led Adaptation
Financial Instruments for Locally-Led Climate Adaptation Initiatives and Resilience Plans
Good practices in accessing and delivering adaptation finance to support Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries
The article outlines strategies and innovative practices to enhance access to and delivery of adaptation finance for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs), emphasizing the importance of equitable, country-led mechanisms and innovative financing approaches to address climate vulnerabilities effectively.
How to fix funding bottlenecks and pave the way for locally led adaptation
A new survey explores the operational bottlenecks preventing local organisations from accessing climate adaptation funding. As the UN General Assembly approaches, IIED’s May Thazin Aung and BRAC’s Sousan Suha share the survey’s findings and explains how funders can smooth the way for locally led adaptation.
How can climate finance work better for fragile and conflict-affected regions?
Researchers at SPARC and UNDP share how smarter climate finance can support some of the most vulnerable people living with the impacts of both climate and insecurity to build their resilience.
Factsheet for Young People: Locally Led Adaptation
How can locally led adaptation respond to highly localized risks in contexts marked by deficits in formal governance machinery? Learn more in this factsheet, which is part of a series that presents information from the Global Center on Adaptation’s flagship reports State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa 2021 and 2022.
UK-Funded Research on Climate Change and International Development: The scope and reach of UK ODA and Wellcome-funded research (2015 2020)
This report presents a mapping and analysis of the scope and reach of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Wellcome-funded research on climate change and international development between 2015 and 2020.