Topic
Accelerating Adaptation Finance: Innovative Approaches to Scaling Resilience and Impact
Joint MDB Pavilion: PV-B39, Blue zone
Date: November 11, 2025
The need and urgency to accelerate adaptation actions cannot be emphasised more: even under the most ambitious mitigation scenarios, a degree of global warming is now locked in, with profound impacts on water systems, infrastructure, and vulnerable communities. Yet adaptation finance remains critically underfunded, representing less than 10% of global climate finance flows.
The barriers to adaptation finance are multi-faceted, including the lack of bankable projects, difficulty to measure and standardise outcomes of adaptation actions, challenges of refined climate risk assessments, among other factors. Over past decades, the global community has been proactively working to address these challenges.
Against this backdrop, the event brought together stakeholders to share insights, experiences and practices, as well as to explore how to move beyond the current frontier of adaptation finance for greater resilience and impact.
The event explored the following questions:
- What are the realities of adaptation on the ground, including challenges and opportunities as to financing, technology and capacity?
- What could be done to expedite adaptation actions? How could proposed measures such as climate resilient infrastructure and nature-based solutions be exploited to achieve greater resilience and impact?
- How could different sources of capital work together to scale up adaptation finance?
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