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Project

Financing adaptation to climate change (CLIMATEFIT)

CLIMATEFIT aims to support innovative financing mechanisms for climate change adaptation by providing key insights into financing sources and strategies.

Active project

2023

Bridging the climate resilience finance gap

CLIMATEFIT unites public and private sectors in a transformative quest for climate resilience. We are amplifying EU territories’ adaptation capacities, unveiling resilient investment avenues, and co-creating innovative strategies, while spotlighting 20 pivotal case studies across three key regions.

Strategic goals

Strategic investment and capacity enhancement
    • Global investment mapping
    • Empower public authorities
    • Innovative financing
Financing scalability and integration
    • Bridging finance gaps

    • Expand funding reach

    • Scaling European missions

Anticipated outcomes

Streamlining finance and building expertise
    • Unified financing framework
    • Enhanced capacity development
    • Comprehensive finance guide
Empowering policy and local action
    • Facilitating private investment
    • Taskforces for local impact
    • Innovative financing

Role of SEI

SEI will deliver roadmaps for developing concrete and scalable investment plans. This includes identifying revenue streams and incentive mechanisms for resilience projects, estimating the resource needs and costs of prioritized projects, and providing guidance on the necessary resource mobilization and financing activities.

SEI will also engage with financing and investment entities to initiate discussions around private sector engagement in climate resilience and will articulate investment concepts, as well as adaptation funding and financing solutions, to help accelerate this investment.

Team

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Richard Taylor

Senior Research Fellow

SEI Oxford

Corrado Topi

Senior Research Fellow

SEI Asia

Anastasia Maga
Anastasia Maga

Research Fellow

SEI Asia

Wanaporn Yangyuentham

Programme Manager

SEI Asia

Charmaine Caparas

Communications Manager

Communications

SEI Asia

Are you a bank, institutional investor, philanthropic organization, impact investor, developer, infrastructure financing entity, insurer, development corporation or crowdfunding entity?

Visit the ClimateFit website to learn more.

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