In a world where natural capital is often unpriced or undervalued, thus making resource
exploitation very lucrative, environmentally degrading activities will continue to dominate the …

Coastal adaptation can reduce climate change impacts and investing now, though costly,
will bring greater benefits over the longer term, particularly in urban areas. Yet public actors …

Unlike climate change mitigation, adaptation to climate change does not as much suffer from
the fundamental global public good problem–at least at the country-level–since it is in the …

Faced with the triple challenges of achieving food security, adapting to the impacts of climate
change, and reducing emissions, agriculture has been prioritized by countries as a sector for …

Flood risk in urban areas around the world is increasing due to socio-economic
development and climate change. Urban climate adaptation measures are beneficial over …

This article investigates the institutional innovations within the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a
new international organization that finances climate mitigation and adaptation in developing …

The mobilization of effective private sector engagement is considered to be critical to
address the adaptation challenge, but literature demonstrates that it has proven difficult. In …

This report explores the current state of finance for climate adaptation and proposes
practical, near term solutions to both fill in knowledge gaps and to increase investment …

We reviewed 76 climate change adaptation projects that were operational between 2010
and 2020. The review was followed by office and field visits for verification. The office visit …

The private sector is one of the sources of finance included in developed countries' pledge
in the UN climate negotiations to mobilise 100billionannuallyby2020tosupportdevelop…' …