Demystifying Private Adaptation Finance

Project description

This projects aims to clarify the private sector's role in adaptation finance in developing countries and emerging markets in particular. The project maps, analyses and illustrates the private sector's abilities to support the objectives of adaptation and climate resilience. As part of the UNEP FI Demystifying series, the purpose of this study is to provide clarity on:

• Where and why the private sector finance is required to achieve climate resilient development
• The financial requirements of different adaptation activities and climate resilient development and the forms of finance which are best suited for which activity
• What are the barriers facing adaptation and climate resilient development activities in financial markets at different stages of maturity and solutions to those barriers where they exist
• Develop the business case for climate resilience

The project will provide clarity to inform the climate negotiations in Paris at the UNFCCC COP 21. The output of the Study will be a report and a series of recommendations identifying the potential for private adaptation finance and for stimulating private financial flows for adaptation and resilience activities, which will be presented at the UNFCCC COP 21 held in Paris in November and December 2015.

Publications

• Can the tourism industry contribute to international adaptation finance?
  Hess, Janto S. / Pieter Pauw / Elissaios Papyrakis(2015)
  Briefing Paper 2/2015
• A global framework for climate action: orchestrating non-state and subnational initiatives for more effective global climate governance
  Chan, Sander / Pieter Pauw(2014)
  Discussion Paper 34/2014
• Not a panacea: private sector engagement in adaptation and adaptation finance in developing countries
  Pauw, Pieter(2014)
  in: Climate Policy 15 (5),