The policy brief Climate Change Adaptation and Agriculture in South Africa: A Policy Assessment considers the extent to which South African policies and strategic plans adequately address climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector.
It provides an overview of the interplay between climate change and agriculture in South Africa and unpacks an analytical framework underpinning the policy assessment. The brief reviews national policy documents and strategies based on this analytical framework and identifies key policy gaps based upon the review. It investigates the extent to which provincial (general overview of provincial coverage) and municipal (a limited sample of municipalities) governments address climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector and concludes with policy implications.
The report Climate Investment Opportunities in South Asia offers recommendations to help unlock trillions of private sector financing for climatesmart investment opportunities in key sectors of interest to businesses in South Asia. The countries in the region are taking the lead in fulfilling their Paris commitments. Scaling and replicating such progress across the region will require catalyzing private finance and creating markets for climate business solutions through policies, financial innovations, and business models targeted at sector-specific local conditions.
The report Climate Finance for the Indian Ocean and African Small Island Developing States analyses concessional international public flows of climate finance to Indian Ocean and African Small Island Developing States for the six years 2010–2015.
The authors examine the sources of climate finance, its distribution among recipient countries, the shares targeting adaptation and mitigation, the spread across sectors, the modes of delivery and intermediaries involved in programming the funds, as well as the share of committed funds that has been disbursed so far. For each country analysed – Cape Verde, the Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, the Maldives, Mauritius, São Tomé and Principe, and the Seychelles – detailed snapshots of climate finance are provided.
