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20 June 2013

8 points on financing climate change adaptation in urban areas

As the urgent need for climate change adaptation becomes clearer, so three issues come to the fore. The first is the cost. Many estimates suggest that trillions of dollars are needed, with little idea of where these might come fr...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation / Urban Areas and Infrastructure

PUBLICATION TYPE : Journal / Periodical

01 March 2013

Policy brief: Risk transfer mechanisms for climate adaptation financing: Policy trends and options

Natural disasters and climate change impacts have caused heavy damages and losses to all sectors. It is the public sector however that absorbs a large portion of the financial costs of disasters. Damages to public buildings and cr...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation / Loss and Damage

PUBLICATION TYPE : Policy Brief / Strategy Brief

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21 February 2013

Climate Conversations - Making climate money work

The release of our Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) in December last year coincided with a significant event in global politics – the UN climate conference in Qatar. While negotiators quibbled over sums and sources of climate mo...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Journal / Periodical

11 January 2013

Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change

This guidance indicates step-by-step advice for the development of sound adaptation strategies in order to assist countries in implementation the Water Convention and its Protocol on Water and Health in the context of climate chan...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation / Gender and Social Impacts / Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Guideline / Manual / Toolkit

Central Asia

11 September 2012

Equity and Cost-Effectiveness of Multilateral Adaptation Finance – Are They Friends or Foes?

The paper analyses the potential criteria for allocating international funding for adaptation to climate change. It also asks whether ‘equity’ and ‘cost-effectiveness’ are two contradictory principles, or if ways can be found to r...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

All Countries, Central Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific

11 September 2012

Trillions of Dollars Needed for Climate Finance

Developing countries need at least $1000 billion a year to carry out climate actions, according to a speaker at the UNFCCC workshop on climate finance in July. This article is on the workshop’s theme of the financing needs of deve...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

All Countries, Central Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific

08 July 2011

Funding for Adaptation has to be Bottom-Up

To cover the shortfall of finance for urban adaptation, a change is required in the global financing systems, from the current top-down approach to a locally oriented demand-driven approach. Basically, an inversion of global adapt...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Announcement

Germany, Rest of the World