In this paper Steering International Adaptation Finance Towards the Local Level, several key challenges and potential solutions for channelling money from the international to the local level have been identified and analysed. The analysis sheds light on promising elements of so-called elevator functions (specific strategies or operating principles within programmes that aim to channel funding effectively through vertical administrative levels from the international to the local level where it is meant to unfold maximum impact) in existing financing mechanisms from different sectors that are potentially suitable for adaptation finance.
This 2018 edition of the Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks Climate Finance was prepared by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, together with partners the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the Islamic Development Bank and the World Bank Group.
This publication Roadmap for Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development follows the Secretary General's Strategy for financing the 2030 agenda for sustainable development designed to transform the financial system from global to local levels in support of the 2030 Agenda by addressing the barriers that constrain channeling finance towards sustainable development, and leveraging opportunities to increase investments in the SDGs at scale.
This report, Inclusive Climate-Smart Finance – Reaching those most in need shows how properly designed and executed climate-smart finance mechanisms can address socio-political imbalances that reduce communities' resilience to the impacts of climate change and can help redress gender imbalances.
This report, TCFD: 2019 Status Report provide an overview of current disclosure practices as they relate to the Task Force’s recommendations, highlight key challenges associated with implementing the recommendations, and outline some of the efforts the Task Force will consider undertaking in coming months to help address some of the implementation challenges.