Alignment

The document examines the necessity of aligning national financing strategies for climate adaptation with other financial frameworks, such as NDCs, SDGs, and national development plans. It highlights that fragmentation caused by ministerial silos or varying partner influences can lead to duplicated efforts. By integrating adaptation finance into the broader economic decision-making process, countries can better identify cross-ministerial synergies, improve the evidence base for investment, and ensure that adaptation actions are resilient to macroeconomic pressures like sovereign debt. The briefing provides lessons on engaging finance and planning ministries to move from a project-based approach to a systemic portfolio approach to adaptation investment.

• Financing strategies for adaptation should be integrated with various other frameworks, including nationally determined contributions (NDCs), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and national development agendas, as well as the investment plans of partners like the Green Climate Fund and multilateral development banks.
• A lack of alignment between different financing strategies can result in fragmented outputs, overlapping efforts, and a failure to include adaptation priorities in non-climate financing strategies, often due to ministerial silos or the influence of different technical and financial partners.
• Integrating adaptation financing into broader national strategies can increase political buy-in and encourage the adoption of adaptation actions across ministries, particularly those of finance and planning.
• Adaptation financing strategies must account for a country's macroeconomic context, specifically existing sovereign debt burdens, as many developing countries lack the fiscal space for additional borrowing to fund adaptation.
• Strategic alignment allows adaptation practitioners to demonstrate the costs and benefits of resilience to other sectors, potentially attracting finance from non-climate sources by highlighting cross-ministerial synergies.
• The document identifies several existing tools and initiatives that can inform the development of adaptation financing strategies, including the World Bank's Country Climate and Development Reports (used in 28 countries), the UNFCCC Needs-based Finance project, and the V20 prosperity plans.

APA

Murphy, D. (2023). Alignment. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2023-08/alignment-financing-strategies-climate-change-adaptation.pdf

Chicago

Murphy, Deborah. Alignment. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2023. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2023-08/alignment-financing-strategies-climate-change-adaptation.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{murphy2023alignment, author = {Murphy, Deborah}, title = {{Alignment}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2023}, month = aug, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2023-08/alignment-financing-strategies-climate-change-adaptation.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }