Tag: Adaptation finance
Targeted Topics Forum: Financing NAP Processes
Mexico City, Mexico | June 20-22, 2017
The NAP Global Network and Mexico’s National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC) co-hosted a Targeted Topics Forum (TTF) on “Financing National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: Options for Implementation.” The TTF was attended by over 30 participants representing nine developing countries from our second cohort, as well as representatives of bilateral donors and other […]
Green Climate Fund to Boost Support for National Adaptation Plans
by Anne Hammill and Hayley Price-Kelly, IISD
At its 13th meeting in Songdo, Republic of Korea, at the end of June, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board announced plans to provide financial support to developing countries for the formulation of national adaptation plans (NAPs) and/or other national adaptation planning processes. Specifically, countries can now request up to USD 3 million in support […]
Making the Business Case for NAPs: How Kenya is Tracking Adaptation Finance
by Stephen King’uyu, Coordinator, Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plan
“If you cannot outline the business case, there will be no adaptation.” This was the message that Christiana Figueres, outgoing Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), shared at the Adaptation Futures 2016 conference in the Netherlands in May, and one that adaptation planners should take seriously. As climate change […]
Financing Adaptation and Resilience through Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Fuel Duty
There is a troubling gap between the existing amount available in finance for climate change adaptation and its actual costs. Though methodologies for estimating adaptation costs are widely debated, the World Bank estimates that adaptation will cost countries tens of billions USD this century, and UNEP’s 2016 Adaptation Finance Gap Update predicts that these costs could escalate to be hundreds […]
Addressing Key Questions in the Technical Examination Process on Adaptation: Vertical Integration and Monitoring & Evaluation in the NAP process
by Hayley Price-Kelly & Angie Dazé
The Paris Agreement’s inclusion of an adaptation goal has raised adaptation’s profile in the international arena. Recognizing this, parties to COP 21 established a Technical Examination Process on Adaptation (TEP-A)—complementing a pre-existing process for mitigation—as a contribution to enhanced action prior to 2020. The first meetings under this process—known as the Technical Expert Meeting on […]
Targeted Topics Forum: “Financing NAPs: Options for Implementation”
Kingston, Jamaica | March 15-17, 2016
We recently held our 2nd Targeted Topics Forum (TTF) with the theme “Financing National Adaptation Plans: Options for Implementation” in Kingston, Jamaica, from March 15-17. 2016. The TTF brought together 42 participants representing 11 countries and five organizations to address a range of financing options including domestic public finance, international finance, and private finance. Presentations from this forum are available […]