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Africa delivers the first mechanism for international cooperation on climate change adaptation under the Paris Agreement
The African Development Bank’s Adaptation Benefits Mechanism (ABM), piloted across Africa sinc...
African Development Bank wins prestigious award for its innovative Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has been awarded the Special Jury Grand Prix at the inaugural F...
The African Development Bank and the UN Capital Development Fund showcase non-market tools to mobilize finance for adaptation at the Africa Climate Week that took place in September 2022, in Libreville, Gabon
The African Development Bank and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) featured two innovative mec...
COP26: African Development Bank forges ahead with new Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The African Development Bank is forging ahead with its flagship adaptation financing facility — th...
African Development Bank’s Adaptation Benefits Mechanism helps to climate-proof Ivorian smallholder farms’ cocoa yields
Help is on the way for the global cocoa supply chain, severely threatened by climate change. A new p...
Resilience and adaptation to climate change 2/2
Part 2 – Financing adaptation and resilience to climate change: what do we need to do? In Part 1...
African Development Bank climate change initiative: Top experts form the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism board
The African Development Bank has appointed a group of renowned experts to the board of a continental...
African Development Bank launches pilot phase of Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
The public sector cannot provide enough finance to make African countries resilient to climate chang...
Applying results-based finance to the Paris Agreement
Results-based finance is a mechanism that enables an “off-taker” to pay a “project developer...