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Africa delivers the first mechanism for international cooperation on climate change adaptation under the Paris Agreement
The African Development Bank’s Adaptation Benefits Mechanism (ABM), piloted across Africa sinc...
African Development Bank wins prestigious award for its innovative Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has been awarded the Special Jury Grand Prix at the inaugural F...
As warming worsens floods, snake-like mobile dams could protect Africans
GLASGOW, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mobile “slamdam” flood barriers that look like ...
Resilience and adaptation to climate change 1/2
Part 1 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: why it matters After two hurricane...
Resilience and adaptation to climate change 2/2
Part 2 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: what do we need to do? In Part 1...
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...
Why is the Adaptation Benefit Mechanism a non-market mechanism?
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement makes provision for the development of both market and non-market m...
Public and private sector investment in adaptation
The imbalance in investment in adaptation and mitigation is both well documented and logical. The Mu...