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COP26: African Development Bank forges ahead with new Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The African Development Bank is forging ahead with its flagship adaptation financing facility — th...
As warming worsens floods, snake-like mobile dams could protect Africans
GLASGOW, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mobile “slamdam” flood barriers tha...
African Development Bank’s Adaptation Benefits Mechanism helps to climate-proof Ivorian smallholder farms’ cocoa yields
Help is on the way for the global cocoa supply chain, severely threatened by climate change. A new p...
Resilience and adaptation to climate change 2/2
Part 2 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: what do we need to do? In Par...
Resilience and adaptation to climate change 1/2
Part 1 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: why it matters After two hurricane...
African Development Bank climate change initiative: Top experts form the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism board
The African Development Bank has appointed a group of renowned experts to the board of a continental...
Valuing Resilience – Why should the international community contribute towards the costs of adaptation to climate change and how can it be done?
Adaptation benefits are in a similar position today to that of emission reductions in the 1990s, whe...
African Development Bank launches pilot phase of Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The public sector cannot provide enough finance to make African countries resilient to climate chang...
Applying results-based finance to the Paris Agreement
Results-based finance is a mechanism that enables an “off-taker” to pay a “project developer...
Public and private sector investment in adaptation
The imbalance in investment in adaptation and mitigation is both well documented and logical. The Mu...