In this section, you can find recommended readings and documents with relevant information oriented on climate change adaptation.
GARI looked at the global progress on understanding physical climate risk and resilience, assessed the developing market for investors, studied feedback from stakeholder surveys and discussions, and now brings forth a set of recommendations and potential paths forward for resilience investments to shape GARI activities in the coming year.
CPI’s 2021 Global Landscape of Climate Finance tracked USD 46 billion in adaptation finance in 2019/2020, an increase of 53% from the USD 30 billion in 2017/2018. While this increase reflects a broader positive trend across public actors recognizing the importance and urgency of implementing climate-resilient development, adaptation finance continues to account for only a minor share of total global climate finance flows.
The report looks at progress in planning, financing and implementing adaptation actions.However, financing to turn these plans and strategies into action isn’t following.
Implementation of adaptation actions – concentrated in agriculture, water, ecosystems and cross-cutting sectors – is increasing. However, without a step change in support, adaptation actions could be outstripped by accelerating climate risks, which would further widen the adaptation implementation gap.
Since 2017, Climate Collective Foundation has been actively engaged in supporting the small and growing business (SGB) sector to measure the climate, social, and gender impact of early-stage startups. This work includes a curriculum introducing startups to climate impact assessment and workshops for startups ecosystem partners.
The 2021 edition of the Global Landscape of Climate Finance (the Landscape) provides the most comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment. The 2021 Global Landscape of Climate Finance analyzes climate finance flows along their life cycle.
This report identifies ways to overcome key barriers to private sector investment in adaptation and resilience, laying out a coordinated and data-driven Blueprint for Action to help governments and their development partners to close the adaptation finance gap.
The ASAP Adaptation Solutions Taxonomy is a tool developed with the aim of establishing a structured approach for transparently determining whether an SME qualifies as “Adaptation SME” based on the type(s) of technologies, products and services offered, identifying areas in which SMEs may require targeted support during the engagement, incubation/acceleration phases of ASAP to avoid maladaptation and adopt best environmental and social risk management practices, and creating a flexible and inclusive framework that can be applied beyond the ASAP initiative to any company, regardless of size/scale or geography
