TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate adaptation finance: from paper commitments to climate risk reduction
AU - Verschuur, Jasper
AU - Ranger, Nicola
AU - Hall, Jim W
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PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Climate adaptation finance is intended to fund activities to reduce the physical climate risks faced by countries. The quantity of adaptation finance has been a highly contentious political issue, and a critical negotiating point for developing countries in international climate negotiations. Yet we argue, as have others, that countries’ resilience to the impacts of climate change will not be noticeably enhanced unless the international adaptation finance community shifts its focus from the quantity of finance to its quality and risk-reducing impacts. We provide five recommendations, underpinned by evidence from scientific research, to transform the quality of adaptation delivered with adaptation finance, to build credibility that it will cost-effectively reduce the future impacts of climate change. Doing so requires an urgent shift in efforts toward improving the enabling environment of governments, sectors, and communities to identify, appraise, prioritize, finance, implement, and monitor adaptation programs and projects. [...]
AB - Climate adaptation finance is intended to fund activities to reduce the physical climate risks faced by countries. The quantity of adaptation finance has been a highly contentious political issue, and a critical negotiating point for developing countries in international climate negotiations. Yet we argue, as have others, that countries’ resilience to the impacts of climate change will not be noticeably enhanced unless the international adaptation finance community shifts its focus from the quantity of finance to its quality and risk-reducing impacts. We provide five recommendations, underpinned by evidence from scientific research, to transform the quality of adaptation delivered with adaptation finance, to build credibility that it will cost-effectively reduce the future impacts of climate change. Doing so requires an urgent shift in efforts toward improving the enabling environment of governments, sectors, and communities to identify, appraise, prioritize, finance, implement, and monitor adaptation programs and projects. [...]
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U2 - 10.1126/science.adx1950
DO - 10.1126/science.adx1950
M3 - Article
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 388
SP - 1374
EP - 1377
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6754
ER -
