COP27 Africa Regional Resilience Hub Session: Private sector solutions for climate adaptation and resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
How can the private sector, and small enterprises in particular, contribute to Climate Adaptation in Subsahara Africa? As part of the Africa Regional Hub 2022, Denise Engel, head of the Private Adaptation Finance Component, spoke on a panel on the topic – watch the recording here.
EVPA Webinar: Opportunities for Climate Adaptation Finance – An Introduction
As climate adaptation finance is a topic with global import, EVPA, GIZ & AVPA are bringing together global perspectives for an introductory e-talk. You will hear more about the importance of private capital in climate adaptation finance, market trends, business opportunities, unrealised impact potential and common challenges. Recorded webinar from June 9.
ANDE West Africa Regional Conference 2022
The ANDE West Africa Regional Conference 2022 took part on 19 and 20 July 2022 in Accra, Ghana. The 2022 conference themed “Accelerating SGB Growth in Africa” focused on critical talent challenges in the SGB sector, as well as how SGBs can help developing economies to achieve the UN SDGs.
PrivABoo Summer School 2022
The Summer School 2022, as part of the PrivABoo Practitioners Lab, took place on 16, 18, 23 August and 1 September 2022. It focused on exploring the context of Adaptation SMEs and their climate change related opportunities and impacts. Additionally, adaptation tools and approaches were discussed, as well as financing opportunities for climate change adaptation.
Becoming a Climate Resilient SME
The International Trade Centre (ITC) offers a free e-learning course for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and experts working with them. The course features the GIZ Climate Expert Approach. Next starting date is Monday, 28th of June. Register now!
Visioning Futures: Improving Infrastructure Planning to Harness Nature’s Benefits in a Warming World
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
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
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
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
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.
