The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the … Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all …-based adaptation should: exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher …

policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address climate-related damages. What is the role of adaptation in this setting … adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity-building to analyse the optimal portfolio of …

Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where … development under conditionality, namely adaptation-development, and its requirement in terms of financing architecture. To … funding examples provide a pertinent analogy for the adaptation problem, and most issues in adaptation finance have also been …