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The study, “Demystifying Adaptation Finance for the Private Sector”, analyses the role of private finance in confronting the challenges of climate change. It seeks to shed light on the role, potential, and policy needs of private financial institutions in adapting to the unavoidable physical impacts of climate change.
Using a broad sample of adaptation-related measures, the study explains how private sector actors can adapt their production processes, supply chains, and marketed products to a changing climate. It explains how the required investments will be financed and identifies the current barriers inhibiting private financial flows for adaptation, both on the demand and supply sides of financial transactions.
Importantly, the study discusses the catalytic role that national and international public actors need to play in establishing the policy and public finance regimes to mobilise private adaptation finance at scale.

The product was developed by the GIZ project Private Sector Adaptation to Climate Change (PSACC) in cooperation with UNEP FI and the Frankfurt School.

The study was published in November 2016.