Category: <span>Press Releases</span>
Adaptation Fund Board approves more projects as adaptation demand grows
9 October 2015
Adaptation Fund Board approves more projects as adaptation demand grows Fund moves ahead with green light from evaluation report (Bonn, October 9 2015) — The Adaptation Fund Board...
Record Number of Adaptation Fund Project Proposals Received as New Regional Program Launches
14 August 2015
Record Number of Adaptation Fund Project Proposals Received as New Regional Program Launches Growing Awareness of Climate Risks, Need to Adapt to Climate Change Rising Among Vulner...
Welcoming Two New Partners with the Accreditation of Antigua & Barbuda- Environment Division and UN-Habitat
10 August 2015
Adaptation Fund Welcomes Two More Partners To Combat Climate Change Accreditation of Antigua & Barbuda Environment Division and UN-Habitat Supports Fund’s Actions at National a...
The Adaptation Fund Clears Proposal ‘Pipeline,’ Welcomes Contribution from Government of Flanders
14 January 2015
(Washington, DC, Jan. 14, 2015) The Adaptation Fund has received a contribution from the government of Flanders (Belgium) of EUR 1 million (US$ 1.2 million), which had been pl...
The Adaptation Fund at COP20: Resource Mobilization and Readiness Success New EUR 50 million contribution from Germany; ‘Climate Finance Ready’ Website Launched
12 December 2014
(Lima, Peru, Dec. 12, 2014) The Adaptation Fund received strong support from the government of Germany at the COP20 in Lima, Peru, with a contribution of EUR 50 million. At th...
Adaptation Fund and CDKN Partner for “Climate Finance Ready”–website for knowledge sharing in climate finance readiness
5 December 2014
(Lima, Peru, 5 December 2014) The Adaptation Fund and CDKN are pleased to announce their strategic partnership and creation of “Climate Finance Ready,” a ne...
Adaptation Fund Doubles Direct Access Climate Financing, Approves South-South Grants
10 October 2014
(Bonn, Germany, Oct. 10, 2014) The Adaptation Fund Board doubled direct access financing of climate resilience initiatives in developing countries by approving six projec...
Adaptation Fund and UNEP Kick Off Direct Access Climate Finance Readiness Seminar in Bangkok
10 September 2014
(Bangkok, Thailand, Sept. 10, 2014) The Adaptation Fund’s Climate Finance Readiness seminar series continues with today’s opening in Bangkok, Thailand, of the thir...
Namibia’s Desert Research Foundation Becomes 17th Accredited National Implementing Entity for Adaptation Fund
13 August 2014
(Washington, DC, 13 August 2014) The Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) has been accredited as the Adaptation Fund’s seventeenth National Implementing Entity (NIE)....
Adaptation Fund Convenes Practitioners & Experts For Climate Finance Capacity Building
15 July 2014
(Washington, DC, July 15, 2014) Today the Adaptation Fund kicks off the second seminar of its Readiness Programme for Climate Finance in Washington, DC, designed to strengthen...