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Climate adaptation finance has a blind spot on conflict and fragility

Communities affected by conflict and fragility are increasingly facing climate change threats, yet climate finance is leaving these people behind.

Publisher Climate Home News
By Josie Emanuel Yue Cao Adriana Quevedo
Africa Mali Somalia Sudan

Climate adaptation finance is helping many climate-vulnerable regions adapt to the adverse effects of climate change, reduce vulnerability and exposure to current and expected climate impacts, and increase resilience.

But what happens when climate-vulnerable countries are also coping with fragile governance or conflict?

SPARC is seeking to understand these dynamics on the ground across the Sahel and Horn of Africa.

Read more in this article for Climate Home News.

A woman collects millet from field with UNAMID peacekeepers watching on in the background
A woman collects millet in a land rented by a community leader in Saluma Area, near the Zam Zam IDP Camp in El Fasher, North Darfur. She is escorted by Jordanian peacekeepers.
Credit Image by Albert González Farran / UN - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Source URL: https://www.sparc-knowledge.org/news-blog/news/climate-adaptation-finance-has-blind-spot-conflict-and-fragility