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Key Messages
Adaptation is for life. It must be financed, fast and fair.
#AdaptationForLife
Adapting to climate change is not a choice, it’s a vital priority.
- Alongside efforts to rapidly cut emissions, which must be scaled urgently, climate adaptation is central to shared resilience, national security, and economic stability. It will define whether development gains hold or unravel under climate pressure.
- As the world gets hotter, extreme weather events are increasing dramatically, putting more lives and livelihoods in danger. Intense heat, droughts, floods, wildfires, and storms are amplifying conflict, disrupting supply chains, straining health systems and pushing up food and energy prices, which makes the cost of living crisis worse. Scaling adaptation efforts, so that more countries, communities, farmers and families can be better prepared for the changes ahead, will help reduce these risks.
In a world transformed by climate change, adaptation becomes the heartbeat of innovation and development.
- Adaptation means transforming how we build cities, grow food, manage water, and how we protect the people, cultures, and places we love. It means building economic resilience so that farmers, for example, can still grow nutritious food and earn enough money to keep their families safe, even when extreme weather puts crops at risk.
- Adaptation is how we keep each other safe and healthy, cities resilient, and trade moving — stabilizing prices, supporting stronger economies, and freeing up funds for future development.
We know that financing adaptation pays off — and that much more is needed now.
- People on the frontlines of the climate crisis are doing everything in their power to protect their livelihoods, homes and heritage, and to forge new solutions rooted in local knowledge, lived experience, care, and reciprocity. But far more high-quality finance — both public and private — is needed to empower and scale these efforts.
- Because no country is resilient until all countries are. No company is resilient until its workers, suppliers, operations, and customers are. That’s why adaptation is everyone’s business. And the value is clear: every dollar provided generates more than ten in benefits — saving lives, boosting productivity, and building a safer, healthier world.
Adaptation is for life. It must be financed, fast and fair.
- At COP 30, nations pledged to triple adaptation finance to at least $120 billion per year by 2035. Vulnerable countries and communities face the steepest barriers to building resilience despite contributing the least to the climate crisis. These communities need more adequate and predictable financial support, which is vital for their national and global stability.
- Every COP from now must serve as a critical stepping stone to ensure these funds are distributed fast and fair, and that adaptation becomes a global political and financing priority while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
- It’s in every country’s interests to scale and speed up adaptation finance now — to protect lives, reduce risk, and secure a more stable, prosperous future for all.
Resources
Reports and Analyses
Adaptation Investment
The macroeconomic case for investing in climate adaptation
This report measures the macroeconomic and fiscal effects of inaction on adaptation at the global, regional, and country levels. Based on the findings of this report, evidence shows that early and strategic adaptation investments can bolster economic stability, reduce debt levels and borrowing costs, and accelerate development.
Adaptation Policy and Development
Climate-Health Messages Build Support for Climate Action
This report analyzes messages that shift people's attitudes on climate. In particular, this report finds that people are more likely to advocate for climate change policies when messages focus on the health harms.
Campaigns
Adapt2Win
Adapting to climate change saves lives, but it’s about more than just survival — it is an opportunity to invest in solutions that help communities thrive. Adapt2Win is a global advocacy campaign that redefines adaptation efforts as innovative solutions leading to shared economic prosperity. Amplified by global sport and culture, it features iconic athletes from football, surfing, hockey, cricket, and track who call on world leaders to invest in climate adaptation.
Race to Resilience
This campaign emphasizes the importance of transparency and accountability in climate action. Its goal is to strengthening resilience for people, especially those on the frontlines of the climate crisis, through measurable action and system-wide adaptation. By joining this global movement, members actively share knowledge, collaborate with other partners, and commit to reporting frameworks to track and drive progress.
Beat the Heat
Extreme heat is on the rise. This campaign intends to strengthen national-to-local collaboration and bridge gaps in finance, policy, and delivery for extreme heat resilience and sustainable cooling. By identifying urban heat resilience or cooling initiatives, Beat the Heat aims to support local government implementation efforts to build heat resilience through inclusive, low-carbon solutions.
Heat is On
Extreme heat is breaking records across the globe. However, cities, farms, and communities worldwide are proving that adaptation solutions work. This campaign aims to spotlight adaptation solutions, share the voices of those on the frontlines, and push leaders to act with urgency and hope.
Climate and Environment Charter
The Climate and Environment Charter provides a framework for action, setting out commitments to guide the humanitarian sector in addressing climate and environmental crises. The charter underscores the responsibility that humanitarian organizations have in helping communities adapt to the realities of a changing climate and environment.
Thought Leadership
Civil Society
RESURGENCE: Resilience is Africa’s future - Climate Adaptation Stories from Africa
Africa is rising. From Senegalese women replanting mangroves to reclaim coastal rice fields to a Kenyan community preserving Indigenous seeds for food, this photo book shows how Africans are doing everything in their power to survive, to salvage their livelihoods, and to protect their homes and heritage.
Learn more from Power Shift Africa >>
Global Adaptation
To Strengthen Climate Resilience, Focus on Social Protection Climate change is not a future risk but rather a present reality impacting many living in poverty around the world. So, how do we prevent the climate crisis from reversing decades of progress on poverty reduction? Learn more from Project Syndicate >>
Support the Campaign on Social
Help build the conversation about climate adaptation on social media. We have created a package of social-ready assets to make it easy for you to share across your platforms.
2026 Key Moments
- May 11-12: Africa Forward Summit, Nairobi
- May 11-14: 20th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA20), Manila
- June 25: London Climate Resilience Finance Summit, London
- September 1-5: Africa Food Systems Forum, Kigali
- November 9-20: COP 31, Antalya
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