COP29 – What Has It “Delivered” for Climate Adaptation and Loss Damage? The COP29 was labelled the “Climate Finance COP”. Many reports have been shared about the outcomes in view of increasing financial flows and setting a new global climate finance target, the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). The negotiation eventually settled for $300bn per Read More

PlanAdapt Arrives in Rwanda! – Shaping the Next Generation of Rwandan Professionals and Their Skills and Competencies to Manage Climate Risks for the Benefit of Climate Vulnerable Families and Households PlanAdapt is driven by the collaborators who ‘earn, learn and grow together’ under the roof of our innovative organisational model. As a platform for Fellows Read More

COP29 is the ‚Finance COP‘ – Finance is Crucial to Scale the Ambitions of Climate Adaptation Efforts, But Scaling Positive Adaptation Outcomes Goes Way Beyond More Funding by Martin Rokitzki, 11 November 2024 CLIMATE ADAPTATION at SCALE – Think Big and Smart! New Paradigms are Needed! How can and must higher levels of adaptation finance Read More

What Have We Learnt from over Three Years of Facilitating the Climate Co-Adaptation Lab, our Co-Creation & Innovation Space for Climate Adaptation Solutions and Climate Risk Management? Lessons and insights by the Coordination Hub of PlanAdapt, i.e. the conveners and facilitators of this collective approach to CCA and CRM-focused learning and innovation Pohhhhh, what a Read More

By Sam Greene, Brock Hicks and Jess Vujovic COP28 was a landmark moment for Loss and Damage. As advocates for more just climate finance, what does operationalizing the Loss and Damage Fund mean for us? Where will the new UNFCCC facility sit in the existing climate finance ecosystem? And where does adaptation end and loss and Read More