As a result, adaptation priorities can often be set by national level institutions where relatively high capacity exists and may then be disconnected from the contexts and needs of local people.
This brief – based on a chapter in the forthcoming AdaptationWatch report – sets out five barriers to the provision of finance for climate adaptation, and offers policy pointers for overcoming them.
To read the full chapter on this research, look for the 2017 AdaptationWatch Report, to be released at COP23 in November 2017.
