Demystifying adaptation finance for the private sector

What are the adaptation needs of private sector actors? How are those needs typically financed? What are the barriers that inhibit private adaptation finance flows? What is the appropriate role of public finance and policy to catalyse private financial flows towards adaptation?

 

This is the second of a series of UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) contributions to the multilateral negotiations on climate finance, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and its Private Sector Facility (PSF).

 

A joint study between UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), implemented by the German Development Corporation (GIZ) and conducted by the Frankfurt School UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, The German Development Centre (DIE) and Acclimatise.