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The SADC Green Bonds Programme, running from April 2021 to March 2024, seeks to accelerate the use of green bonds for climate finance in SADC member countries. Key achievements include the launch of the SADC Green and Sustainable Bond guidelines in April 2022, the revision of the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange rules in Tanzania, and the issuance of a MUR 500 million green bond by Cim Financial Services Limited in Mauritius.

FSD Africa is collaborating with UMOA-Titres to implement an Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) for the WAEMU region to enhance the secondary trading market for debt securities. The initiative aims to increase market liquidity, reduce capital costs for governments and the private sector, and broaden the investor base beyond banks. As of October 2022, a Programme Manager was onboarded in March 2022 and the development of a draft Business Requirement Document (BRD) is underway.

The project focuses on integrating African perspectives into the TNFD framework through three workstreams: developing academic justifications for natural capital protection, piloting the TNFD framework with African financial institutions, and launching the African Natural Capital Alliance (ANCA). Initial efforts have included quantifying the impact of nature on loan book values to understand how physical and transition risks affect profits, noting that 23% of Africa's GDP depends on nature.

The document details CDKN's efforts in India, focusing on integrating climate change with disaster risk reduction (DRR) and promoting green growth. Key initiatives include addressing heat-health vulnerability in Ahmadabad, improving disaster management planning in Leh, and researching climate-adapted shelter design. It also highlights the challenges facing the adoption of green construction technologies in India, such as lack of technical capacity, inadequate assessment tools, and bureaucratic hurdles.

The document details CDKN's technical assistance to Nepal, focusing on enhancing the country's role in UNFCCC negotiations, conducting economic impact assessments of climate change on water and agriculture, and integrating climate indicators into food security monitoring. It highlights Nepal's leadership of the LDC Group and its efforts to mainstream mountain climate issues globally, while also noting the importance of documenting local community-led adaptation and disaster response initiatives.

The document details CDKN's support for Pakistan, focusing on three main areas: climate-resilient reconstruction in Punjab, the development of a national disaster risk insurance strategy, and technical capacity building for UNFCCC COP negotiations. It also highlights the launch of Pakistan's National Climate Change Policy in February 2013, which prioritizes adaptation in water, agriculture, and forestry, while addressing mitigation and disaster preparedness.

The document details CDKN's support for the Government of Bangladesh in mainstreaming climate resilience through a three-block framework (enabling environment, policies/planning, and projects/programmes) and developing evidence-based policies on loss and damage and climate-induced migration. It highlights specific impacts in Sathkira District, where salinity intrusion caused total rice crop failure in 2009, and notes the existence of national funding mechanisms like the Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund.

The document outlines CDKN's support for Nepal's role as Chair of the LDC Group within the UNFCCC, the operationalization of the Nepal Climate Change Knowledge Management Centre (NCCKMC), and several ongoing research projects focusing on the economic costs of climate change and disaster risk reduction in the Koshi River Basin.

The document details CDKN's support for Pakistan's climate action, including the development of a work programme for climate compatible development, the creation of a climate change fund, and specific projects on disaster risk insurance and resilient shelter design. It highlights Pakistan's high vulnerability to climate change despite low global emissions and emphasizes the need to align adaptation planning with national development goals.

The document outlines several CDKN-supported initiatives in Nepal, most notably a project launched in October 2012 to calculate the economic costs of climate change within the water and agriculture sectors. It also highlights efforts to strengthen Nepal's strategic engagement with the UNFCCC, including the training of a Core Negotiating Team and Nepal's election as chair of the LDC Group. Other mentioned projects include the integration of climate indicators into the Food Security Monitoring System (NeKSAP), the development of the Nepal Climate Change Knowledge Management Centre (NCCKMC), and research on disaster risk reduction in the Koshi River Basin.