Financing Climate Adaptation: Old Challenges, Emerging Threats, Novel Solutions
Abstract
Climate impacts are intensifying, testing development initiatives and exposing gaps in how adaptation is financed and delivered. This COP session brings together senior experts to examine the pressures facing developing countries, surface the core barriers to effective adaptation and resilience, and explain why many current financing approaches fall short. Panelists will make the case for a holistic model that links development goals with risk reduction and locally led solutions. They will outline what a more robust adaptation finance system should include: predictable and scaled funding, alignment of public and private capital, fit-for-context instruments, risk-informed planning, and clear metrics for impact and accountability.
Alexis Abramson, Dean of the Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
Richard Muyungi - Chair, African Group of Negotiators
Avinash Persaud, Special Advisor on Climate Change to the President, Inter-American Development Bank
Elizsbeth Yee, Executive Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation
Youssef Nassef, Director of Adaptation Division, UNFCCC
Moderator: Jeff Schlegelmilch, Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia Climate School, Associate Professor of Practice in Climate at the Columbia Climate School, and Principal Investigator for the Climate Finance Vulnerability Index (CliF-VI)
