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The NAP Readiness Writeshop in Apia, Samoa was organised under the IMPACT project.
May 2019
Improving access to climate finance and increasing absorption of funding opportunities are integral to speeding up Small Island Developing States’ (SIDS) efforts to enhance adaptation and build long-term resilience to climate change. A recent “Writeshop” in Samoa, which brought together Pacific and Caribbean representatives to build on each other's experiences, yielded a number of valuable lessons.
Installing solar panels
December 2018

The role of finance and investment in meeting the 1.5°C goal

Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Rodrigo Narvaez Rojas

This week, climate finance – funds for developing countries to enable low-emission and climate-resilient development – takes center stage as political leaders discuss how to ramp up climate ambition at COP24 in Katowice, Poland. What role can investments and finance for mitigation and adaptation play, in particular for the most vulnerable countries?
Flood damage in Fiji following Cyclone Evan 2012. Photo Aus AID public domain
January 2018
By now it is clear that climate change is as much an economic problem as it is an environmental one. Rising temperatures slow economic growth and devastating climate-related impacts leave large negative imprints on economic development of developing countries. Most financial instruments that have been proposed in the context of loss and damage do not solve the problems developing countries face.