Not a panacea: private sector engagement in adaptation and adaptation finance in developing countries

Pauw, Pieter
Externe Publikationen (2014)

in: Climate Policy 15 (5),

Volltext/Document

International political debates increasingly stress the importance of private climate finance. Knowledge of private engagement in mitigating climate change and in more advanced economies is growing, but the evidence base for private sector engagement in climate change adaptation in developing countries remains weak. This paper conceptualises and scrutinizes private sector engagement in adaptation and adaptation finance in developing countries. Based on a case study on the agricultural sector in Zambia, it concludes that the domestic private sector in particular can contribute substantially to adaptation in direct and indirect ways, and that domestic policies incentivize such contributions. However, international private financing of adaptation is more limited and its analysis requires a stricter interpretation of adaptation. Private sector engagement in adaptation and adaptation finance can supplement, but not substitute, public investments in adaptation. These limitations are particularly important when discussing private adaptation finance as part of the developed countries’ pledge to mobilize USD 100 billion of climate finance per annum from 2020 onwards.

Weitere Expert*innen zu diesem Thema

Aleksandrova, Mariya

Climate risk governance 

Brandi, Clara

Ökonomie und Politikwissenschaft 

Breuer, Anita

Politikwissenschaftlerin 

Dippel, Beatrice

Komparatistik 

Donnelly, Aiveen

Politikwissenschaft 

Ekoh, Susan S.

Umweltwissenschaft 

El-Haddad, Amirah

Ökonomie 

Fasold, Maximilian

Politische Ökonomie 

Goedeking, Nicholas

Vergleichende politische Ökonomie 

Haldenwang, Christian von

Politikwissenschaftler 

Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke

Volkswirtin 

Houdret, Annabelle

Politikwissenschaftlerin 

Hägele, Ramona

Politikwissenschaftlerin 

Lehmann, Ina

Politikwissenschaft 

Leininger, Julia

Politikwissenschaftlerin 

Malerba, Daniele

Ökonomie 

Mathis, Okka Lou

Politikwissenschaftlerin 

Morare, Ditebogo Modiegi

Politikwissenschaften 

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo

Ökologische Ökonomie 

Roll, Michael

Soziologie 

Schoderer, Mirja

Umweltwissenschaft 

Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy

Agrarökonom 

Wehrmann, Dorothea

Soziologie