Publications
Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative
Advancing effective, equitable adaptation finance systems to build resilience in a changing climate
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Following the Money Isn’t Enough: How Civil Society Organizations Provide Accountability for Climate Adaptation Finance
by Nisha Krishnan - November 2020This paper highlights how civil society organizations can play critical roles in establishing transparent and accountable climate finance systems that put communities at the center of decision-making. It draws from the Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative’s experiences in Ethiopia and Uganda as well as lessons learned from similar efforts in Bangladesh, Kenya, and the Philippines. It offers valuable information to help civil society organizations build their engagement and capacity on climate adaptation finance.
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Climate Resilience Grants to Local Governments in Least Developed Countries
by Ayesha Dinshaw and Colleen McGinn - June 2019Measuring the impact of local adaptation programs is challenging, especially when decision-makers integrate climate resilience across broader sustainable development initiatives. New research from WRI examines these challenges – from balancing country-specific and portfolio-wide adaptation assessment needs to integrating resilience elements into existing development monitoring and evaluation systems – and offers methodological solutions that adaptation practitioners around the world can implement.
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Future of the Funds: Exploring the Architecture of Multilateral Climate Finance
by Niranjali Manel Amerasinghe, Joe Thwaites, Gaia Larsen and Athena Ballesteros - March 2017This report examines seven key multilateral climate funds and recommends operational and architectural reforms to improve their ability to deliver low-emissions and climate-resilient development.
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From Tracking to Action
Promoting Social Accountability in Adaptation Finance
by Pieter Terpstra, Annaka Peterson Carvalho and Emily Wilkinson - December 2015 -
What Counts: Tools to Help Define and Understand Progress Towards the $100 Billion Climate Finance Commitment
by Paul Bodnar, Jessica Brown (CPI) and Smita Nakhooda (ODI) - September 2015As Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) design a post-2020 climate agreement and establish their national contributions within it, the question of progress toward existing climate finance targets has become a sticking point.
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Building Climate Equity
Creating a New Approach from the Ground Up
by David Waskow, Wendi Bevins, Eliza Northrop, Laura Weatherer, Paul Joffe, Dr. Sonja Klinsky, Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University and Robert Kutter, Founder, Kutter Consulting - June 2015As climate impacts mount, so does the urgency of resolving the equity challenge. Those least responsible for climate change are often the most vulnerable to changes in weather patterns, sea level rise, and other impacts, further exacerbating existing inequities.
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Getting to $100 Billion: Climate Finance Scenarios and Projections to 2020
by Michael I. Westphal, Athena Ballesteros, Jennifer Morgan and Pascal Canfin - June 2015At Copenhagen in 2009, developed country Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) committed to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion a year by 2020 from public and private sources to support climate action in developing countries.
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Tracking Adaptation Finance
An Approach For Civil Society Organizations To Improve Accountability For Climate Change Adaptation
by Pieter Terpstra and Annaka Peterson Carvalho, Senior Program Officer, Oxfam America - April 2015If your CSO wants to engage in a meaningful debate about adaptation, you need to gather evidence on the strengths and weaknesses of current adaptation finance structures.
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Going in the Right Direction?
Tracking Adaptation Finance at the Subnational Level
by Pieter Terpstra, Emily Wilkinson (ODI), Alice Caravani (ODI), Nella Canales Trujillo (ODI), Smita Nakhooda (ODI) and Annaka Peterson-Carvalho (Oxfam America) - December 2014The Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative (AFAI) project seeks to improve accountability around adaptation finance.
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The Plumbing of Adaptation Finance
Accountability, Transparency, and Accessibility at the Local Level
by Pieter Terpstra, Annaka Peterson Carvalho and Emily Wilkinson - November 2013The amount of international climate finance approved to help developing countries address the impacts of climate change increased considerably between 2008 and 2012.
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Adapting for a Green Economy
Companies, Communities and Climate Change
by Samantha Putt del Pino, Eliot Metzger, Sally Prowitt, United Nations Global Compact, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Oxfam - June 2011A Caring for Climate report by the United Nations Global Compact, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Oxfam, and World Resources Institute (WRI)
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Paying the Premium
Insurance as a Risk Management Tool for Climate Change
by Aarjan Dixit and Heather McGray - June 2009Climate change is projected to exacerbate the intensity, and frequency, of weather-related hazards such as storms and droughts (IPCC, 2007).
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Making Climate Your Business
Private Sector Adaptation in Southeast Asia
by Lauren Withey, Kirk Herbertson, Heather McGray, Karin Borgerson, Jacqui Dixon, Marie Morice, Richard Welford and Helen Roeth - January 2009Climate change is here. The present and future implications of a warming climate are becoming clearer, thanks to a growing body of scientific evidence devoted to the topic. Most of society now recognizes the importance of dealing with the problem, which will include not just warmer
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Financing Adaptation
Opportunities for Innovation and Experimentation
by Manish Bapna and Heather McGray - November 2008Climate change is upon us. The earth is warming, seasons are shifting, species are migrating, and water is fl owing in new patterns. The accelerating and deepening impacts of climate change will touch everyone on earth, but those who stand to