CDKN’s knowledge brokering support to UNFCCC recognised in Adaptation Gap report

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water last week, opening with a call for a dramatic increase in adaptation finance. As world leaders gather in Baku for COP29, the need for urgent climate finance is high on the agenda. UNEP’s oft-cited, science-based assessment of global progress on adaptation planning, financing and implementation, reinforced that there continues to be a huge adaptation finance gap.

 

This year’s report emphasises the need for capacity building to make adaptation efforts across the world more impactful, and includes a spotlight on the Climate and Development Knowledge Network’s (CDKN) work co-creating regional climate programmes under the Needs-Based Finance (NBF) project, which aims to improve access to climate finance.

 

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