Adaptation and resilience finance funders

Adaptation attracts a fraction of the capital that mitigation does, largely because the revenue case is harder to write. That makes the funder set narrower and the framing more important: adaptation money follows avoided losses, public co-benefit and clear vulnerability evidence, not projected returns alone.

The funders here finance water security, climate-smart agriculture, coastal and flood resilience, resilient infrastructure and early-warning systems. Grant and concessional instruments dominate, and government or accredited-entity partnership is often a requirement rather than an advantage.