Two thousand villages uprooted, 43 lives lost, and thousands of people displaced in Punjab in recent floods is not an anomaly, but a recurrent catastrophe. Recent years have been marked by a cascade of climate hazards, revealing a nationwide pattern of escalating climate risks and mounting damages. The statistics reveal a glaring reality: human proclivitiesContinue reading “Sub-National Disaster Finance: Missed Opportunities and Challenges”
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Measuring What the Roadmap Misses: Exposure Indices and the New Infrastructure of Climate Finance
The Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T is about mobilising and directing climate finance, yet it says relatively little about how the underlying climate risks are to be measured, compared and fed into economic decision-making. For countries already grappling with rising debt, tightening fiscal space and escalating climate impacts, this is no longer a technicalContinue reading “Measuring What the Roadmap Misses: Exposure Indices and the New Infrastructure of Climate Finance”
Legacy Mechanisms, New Expectations: A Perspective on the Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T
The recently released report “Report on the Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T” (henceforth referred to as the Roadmap), prepared as part of the COP29 and COP30 Presidencies, is framed as an action-oriented consolidation of existing initiatives and potential leverage points within the international climate finance system. The report realistically acknowledges the tension between itsContinue reading “Legacy Mechanisms, New Expectations: A Perspective on the Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T”
Toward a Balanced Climate Finance Taxonomy: India’s Adaptation Lens
As the world turns its attention to the upcoming climate change conference in Bonn organised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as well as the 30th Conference of Parties (COP 30), there is an expectation of a more extensive focus on building resilient approaches to climate change. Adaptation, long overshadowed byContinue reading “Toward a Balanced Climate Finance Taxonomy: India’s Adaptation Lens”
Adaptation Finance: Scaling up for Better Preparedness
Climate financing is a widely discussed necessity and yet a conflicted topic since the climate change debate has begun. Between the right definitions, huge scope, and adequate amount of climate financing needs and requirements, the world has witnessed plethora of finance commitments. Amongst the many aspects of the climate finance debate, one of the critical Continue reading “Adaptation Finance: Scaling up for Better Preparedness”