Adaptation Finance Archives

Blog | Climate finance has many taxonomies, but not enough translation

By Clare Wingfield Anyone working in climate finance notices a persistent theme in discussions about standards. Most experts agree that the market needs clear guidelines, but there is far less consensus about which standards to use. At a recent industry summit, an investor summed it up neatly, ‘Everyone is doing their own frameworks and […]

Blog | Record climate finance, shrinking targets and what MDBs’ best year yet brings for private capital

By Clare Wingfield Two things happened almost in the same breath this summer, and together they tell a more interesting story than either does on its own. The first is that the multilateral development banks published their 2025 Joint Summary Report on Climate Finance, and the numbers are, by any measure, a record. Collective […]

Blog | The threat of a super El Niño exposes the limits of today’s climate finance

By Natalia Rubiano ‘’The world must treat [El Niño] as the urgent climate warning it is.’’ – Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General El Niño, the naturally recurring climate pattern linked to warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, was officially declared on 11 June by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]

Blog | Bonn 2026: The growing gap between climate promises and action

By Celia Chameni In June 2026, international diplomats gathered in Bonn, Germany, for the UNFCCC’s mid-year climate talks, formally the 64th session of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB64). The two-week conference, running from 8 to 18 June, was intended to lay the groundwork for the COP31 summit in Antalya, Türkiye, this November. It took place […]

Blog | COP29: Tying it all together – Outcomes on this year’s summit

By Victoria Verdesoto-Phothirath In the run up to COP29, E Co. consultants wrote a series of briefings and reflections discussing what was at stake for progress on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), Article 6, the Global Goal on Adaptation and Loss and Damage. We share our insights, response and takeaways below. The NCQG falls […]

Blog | Measuring adaptation impact at COP29

By Victoria Verdesoto-Phothirath Progress so far: the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience and the First GST Outcome The previous COP saw the establishment of the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience (UAE FGCR), expanding on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) established under the Paris Agreement (Article 7.1). The GGA aims to drive climate […]