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Assessing the Adaptation Relevance of Businesses: A Selection of Tools

December 27, 2022

This publication provides an overview of selected tools that businesses can use to identify climate risks and impacts in their regions and economic sectors, and a short guidance as to how this information can be used to build a company’s narrative towards their adaptation relevance.

Briefing: Impact Investing for Climate Change Adaptation, an Introduction

November 8, 2022

This Briefing provides an introduction to climate change adaptation, its relevance for impact investors and how the issue can be addressed in investment strategies. The focus lies on investment opportunities in SMEs and growth stage companies in developing countries and emerging markets. At the same time, much of the analytical framework is applicable to developed markets as well, for example how to identify adaptation-relevant business models.

Visioning Futures: Improving Infrastructure Planning to Harness Nature’s Benefits in a Warming World

February 4, 2020

This WWF report, with support from GIZ, outlines a new planning approach integrating considerations of natural capital and ecosystem services, climate risks and resilience, and sustainable development needs to support social-ecological system scale planning.

Climate change and small-scale fisheries

December 4, 2019

The fisheries sector contributes significantly to income and food security for hundreds of millions of people, particularly in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and coastal Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Insurance: Success, Challenges and Opportunities

November 7, 2019

Both Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and Climate Risk Finance & Insurance (CRFI) can be used to enhance adaptation, reduce and transfer risk, and build resilience to the growing impacts from natural and human-made hazards. There is a nascent and growing interest in where these strategies may intersect and be mutually beneficial for adaptation. The GIZ joint publication by the Global Project Mainstreaming EbA, the InsuResilience Secretariat and ACRI+ is available now.

Bottom-Up Innovation for Adaptation Financing – New Approaches for Financing Adaptation Challenges Developed Through the Practitioner Labs Climate Finance

September 5, 2019

This Innovation Brief presents six innovative bottom-up adaptation financing approaches from the SEED Practitioner Labs Climate Finance 2018 in India, Thailand and Uganda, and shares overarching learnings about challenges and solutions.

The Roles of the Private Sector in Climate Change Adaptation – an Introduction

September 5, 2019

This introduction shows that companies of any size, private associations and cooperatives, banks and investors as well as insurance companies can play three different roles in and for adaptation. They can adapt to climate change, finance climate adaptation of others and support others through products and services for resilience.

Study on Engaging the Private Sector in National Adaptation Planning Processes

April 24, 2019

Adapting to the impacts of climate change, whether at the national, sub-national or community level, is not the responsibility of national governments alone. It requires the coordinated input of multiple stakeholders, including local authorities, development partners, communities and civil society. This study aims to offer guidance to governments and their partners on how to engage the private sector in the NAP process.

Finanzas innovadoras para la Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas (AbE) – Involucramiento del sector privado (ficha)

October 23, 2018

El documento explica paso a paso la metodología desarrollada por el Programa EbA "Estrategias de Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas en Colombia y Ecuador" para el diseño participativo de mecanismos financieros innovadores que aprovechen las oportunidades financieras locales, de manera que se fenere confianza entre los actores y transparencia a las inversiones.

Engaging the Private Sector in Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries: Importance, Status, and Challenges.

November 8, 2017

This paper summarizes why it is necessary but difficult for the private sector to adapt to climate change. It describes measures for promoting private investments in climate resilience and highlights the need for much more focused and detailed analysis of business opportunities arising from climate change.

Adapting to Climate Change: Methods and Tools for Climate Risk Management.

November 8, 2017

This guidebook seeks to provide organitzizations with the information they need in order to understand the range of issues involved in adaptation, and to help them make informed decisions about how they may make progress with adaptation planning in practice. It explains why adaptation is climate risk management and provides a comprehensive overview of methods and tools for climate risk assessment.

Adapting From The Ground Up – Enabling Small Businesses in Developing Countries to Adapt to Climate Change

November 8, 2017

The report highlights how the public sector, with assistance from development partners, NGOs, and others, can create an enabling environment which will encourage micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries to invest in adaptation. The analysis is based on numerous case studies.

The Business Case for Responsible Corporate Adaptation: Strengthening Private Sector and Community Resilience.

November 8, 2017

This report highlights how companies can adapt to climate change, and how to address the most pressing challenges that hamper private sector progress. It shares lessons learned from 17 case studies and provides actionable guidance for public and private sector leaders to accelerate responsible corporate adaptation.

Making Adaptation a Private Sector Business: Insights from the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience in Nepal

November 8, 2017

This case study assesses a private sector project run by the IFC in Nepal. The project engages and develops the capacity of agribusiness firms and local commercial banks to transfer skills and resources to farmers, thus promoting climate resilience in the agricultural sector. The report also explores opportunities for scaling-up and replicating private sector engagement.

Adaptation to Climate Change: Promising Ways to Tackle Climate Risks

November 6, 2017

This paper describes the German approach and contribution to climate change adaptation in developing countries. It addresses topics such as adaptation finance, private sector adaptation and innovative climate risk finance solutions.

Guide for Industrial Zone Managers

March 8, 2017

The Guide provides information, practical tools, case studies and recommendations to support Industrial Zone managers in conducting a climate risk analysis and developing an adaptation strategy. The Guide is structured along the following sections: Industrial zones and adaptation to climate change, implementing an adaptation strategy, building adaptation capacity of industrial zones, supporting tools and references.

Stimulating private sector engagement and investment in building disaster resilience and climate change adaptation

March 8, 2017

This study explores how public finance can be better used to stimulate private sector engagement in building disaster resilience and preparedness for natural catastrophes and climate change. Through four country case studies (Bangladesh, Kenya, Mozambique, Pakistan) and research this report explores what the private sector needs in order to overcome constraints to its engagement and investment in building resilience.

Private Sector Adaptation to Climate Change and Development Agency Support

March 8, 2017

This note explores the role of the private sector in adaptation and describes challenges to private sector adaptation. It summarizes how development agencies are providing support, e.g. through partnerships with private sector actors, facilitation of clean technology transfer and other measures. The note end with a short overview of the potential ways forward.

Private Sector Engagement in Adaptation to Climate Change: Approaches to Managing Climate Risks

March 8, 2017

The report analyzes how companies perceive, assess and manage climate change risks. It considers whether companies are taking advantage of the business opportunities arising from climate change and assesses common trends and factors affecting private sector adaptation.

Demystifying Adaptation Finance for the Private Sector

March 8, 2017

This studies analyses different aspects of private investments into climate change adaptation. Amongst other things, it identifies the adaptation needs of private sector actors and discusses the barriers that inhibit private adaptation finance flows. The study also describes what governments and public finance institutions can do to support private sector investments.

PUBLICATIONS

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Agri-Food Systems: A Compendium of Analytic Tools for Practitioners

Climate Services to support Infrastructure Investment Planning for the Port of Itajai in Brazil

Stocktake Report – Climate Justice in the Implementation of Ecosystem-based Adaptation

TRAININGS

E-learning course “Ecosystem-based Adaption (EbA): Working with nature to adapt to a changing climate”

PrivABoo Summer School 2022

Becoming a Climate Resilient SME

ONLINE SESSIONS

Launch Event: Synergies between adaptation, biodiversity and mitigation

Launch Event: Climate Justice in Ecosystem-based Adaptation – The new Publication Collection

Launch Event: Synergies Between Biodiversity and Climate Policy Frameworks