How philanthropy is responding to climate impacts

Adaptation is no longer optional — it’s essential. Climate impacts are intensifying — threatening decades of progress in poverty reduction and development. The need to invest at scale in adaptation and resilience has never been more urgent. A new report by ClimateWorks Foundation shows how philanthropy is responding — where funding is flowing, where critical gaps remain, and how funders can help catalyze far greater investment in resilience. Momentum is growing — and so are the opportunities for impact. 📖 Explore the report: https://lnkd.in/gKcQWZFW

Great to see philanthropy increasingly supporting adaptation and resilience - central to inclusive growth and development, especially for the communities, countries, sectors and companies that are most vulnerable to climate impacts.

Adaptation is gaining visibility in climate philanthropy, and not a moment too soon. At Active Philanthropy, we see more funders recognising that building resilience is central to effective climate action. This shift is also becoming more visible in global conversations, including this year’s COP. ClimateWorks Foundation’s new report highlights how philanthropy is responding, where gaps remain, and how funders can help scale. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ebY3CQc2

Adaptation is no longer optional — it’s essential. Climate impacts are intensifying, threatening decades of progress in poverty reduction and development. The need to invest at scale in adaptation and resilience has never been more urgent. A new report by ClimateWorks Foundation shows how philanthropy is responding — where funding is flowing, where critical gaps remain, and how funders can help catalyze far greater investment in resilience. Momentum is growing — and so are the opportunities for impact. 📖 Explore the report: https://lnkd.in/ecQ5gRhi

Foundation funding for climate adaptation grew 120% since 2021, reaching $870 million in 2024. ClimateWorks Foundation’s new report on foundation funding for climate adaptation finds that:  🔹 Philanthropic funding for adaptation is rising but still far from meeting global needs. Currently, less than 10% of global climate finance supports adaptation. 🔹 Agriculture, ecosystems, and health receive the most support, while support for critical sectors like infrastructure and disaster risk management lags behind. 🔹 New collaborative efforts such as the Adaptation & Resilience Collaborative for Funders (ARC) are expanding philanthropic alignment and action. Despite being a tiny fraction of global financial flows, strategically directed philanthropy can catalyze larger flows of capital and have an outsized impact on resilience outcomes. 📖 Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/ebY3CQc2 Emilie Mazzacurati • Osama I. • Elle (Beard) Hempen • Katie MacDonald • Arindam Bhattacharya • Frank Manuel F. • Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme • Brooke Zhang • Carson Mayo                         

As climate impacts intensify, communities are facing compounding crises — from heatwaves and droughts to floods and displacement. These disruptions strain health systems, threaten food production and livelihoods, and undermine decades of progress in poverty reduction and development. The challenge for philanthropy is clear: resilience must be built into every investment and strategy to safeguard these gains. Today, less than 10% of total climate finance supports adaptation, while developing countries face an annual shortfall of $359 billion in meeting their adaptation needs. The gap is vast — but philanthropy can play a catalytic role by seeding innovation, generating evidence, and supporting mechanisms that de-risk investments to help catalyze larger capital flows. Drawing on information from 40 foundations, this new report provides a detailed analysis of how foundations are funding adaptation and resilience, where critical gaps remain, and opportunities for greater impact. https://lnkd.in/gjjWQCbT

Climate shocks, economic instability, and growing humanitarian needs are deeply intertwined with rising violence, feeding into each other in a complex cycle. Conflict – both a cause and a consequence of this cycle –remains one of the biggest barriers to sustainable development.    For millions living in places affected by conflict, this means livelihoods, health, and prosperity are under threat. Building better futures in these contexts is impossible without creating conditions for lasting peace.     🕊️ But achieving this is not only in the hands of peacebuilders.  All those working in fragile and conflict-affected places can – and should – contribute to peace.     Working towards peace through humanitarian, climate, and development efforts helps tackle conflict at its roots and fosters lasting stability in affected communities. In turn, it builds stronger foundations for sustainable progress towards humanitarian, development and climate goals.     In practice, this means using tools and approaches that contribute to peace, such as dialogue, inclusion, conflict sensitivity, and support for local leadership – enhancing the impact of existing efforts.    Our new paper distils decades of our experience working with a range of partners from outside peacebuilding and provides insights on using peace approaches to transform outcomes across three key areas:  ◾ Development finance  ◾ Climate action  ◾ Humanitarian aid    ➡️ Discover why peacebuilding must be a crucial part of tackling current complex global challenges in our carousel.

𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣𝗦 Hi Friends, I'm happy to announce that SHAKTIFY is sponsoring a series of workshops on Nature Based Solutions. There are a total of three 90-minute workshops on offer 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 & 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵:  🔹Empower individuals and organisations in developing a local, community driven response to climate change 🔹Using real-world examples, each workshop considers and integrates the social, economic and environmental aspects of the challenge 🔹Participants are provided with the tools to implement learnings 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿: NGOs, civil society members, policy makers, students, educators and CSR professionals 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Mark Haubner, Climate Change Activist, Long Island, New York 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: Nov-Dec 2025 These workshops are offered without charge To learn more, please click here https://lnkd.in/gmUMc2yS #NbS #ClimateChange #ClimateSolutions #Bioregioning #Regeneration #Biodiversity #Afforestation #RainWaterHarvesting #SoilManagement

𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 🌍 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠; 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 Here's what practitioners at California's resilience symposium won't tell you: we're not lacking solutions. We're 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 who implement them. While everyone talks about climate tech, three critical gaps are quietly sabotaging our efforts: ❌ 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭-𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝. Underserved communities need genuine relationship work, not parachute consultants. ❌ 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝. Disadvantaged communities have untapped talent—we're just not investing in their development. ❌ 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. We need both headcount AND technical skill-building in adaptation work. The uncomfortable truth? 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. One-off trainings won't cut it. As urban planners navigating this space, we can't solve climate adaptation if we're constantly operating in crisis mode, stretched thin across underfunded projects. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭. 🤔 Let's shift resources where they matter most: 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬, and 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭. What's your biggest capacity challenge? 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 👇 California Resilience Solutions LLC Resilient Cities Network ICLEI ICLEI Africa Climate Resilience Leadership C40 Cities Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) Climate Justice Resilience Fund(CJRF) Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) Action for Climate Mobility and Resilient Africa - ACMiRA International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) The World Bank UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Climate Parliament Climate Resilience for All #ClimateResilience #UrbanPlanning #CapacityBuilding #ClimateAction #SustainableDevelopment #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateAdaptation #WorkforceDevelopment #CommunityEngagement

What can we do to close the critical weather & climate data gap? 90% of the essential weather observations are missing in the Least Developed Countries and Small Island States. At #COP30, the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) – a United Nations Fund proudly co-created by WMO, UNDP and UN Environment Programme - will announce a first-of-its-kind instrument to help close this gap: The SOFF Impact Bond. It will combine speed, accountability, and partnership to finance a global public good. Built on a broad coalition of governments, development agencies, philanthropies, and businesses, the bond will ensure every dollar leads to measurable impact. This video shows why it matters. Share. Join. Invest. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e5B_9jsN #CloseTheDataGap #EarlyWarningsForAll #ClimateAction #ScienceforAction