SCALING UP CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change is an existential threat requiring urgent action to mitigate emissions, build resilience, and protect biodiversity. By scaling up successful strategies and technologies, the global community can address the challenges of climate change more effectively and ensure a sustainable future. Scaling solutions is critical for confronting this challenge because only by scaling will we achieve a transition at the speed and size required. Achieving economies of scale reduces the cost of new technologies and interventions, demonstrating the viability and effectiveness of solutions, creating opportunities for investment, and driving broad behavioral changes.

This working group exists to facilitate discussion and knowledge exchange on how scaling existing approaches – strategies, interventions, and financing models – can accelerate climate action and impact. This working group has organized a webinar on scaling private adaptation finance and produced a blog on scaling financing for biodiversity.

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Recent Posts

Mainstreaming Scaling: A Case Study of the Adaptation Fund

Executive Summary The Adaptation Fund (AF) has played a pioneering role in delivering community-focused, innovative, and direct-access climate adaptation finance to developing countries. In the context of rapidly increasing global adaptation needs and in response to the COP29 mandate to triple adaptation finance by 2030, the AF is now at a pivotal moment in its scaling journey. This study, conducted as part of the Scaling Community of Practice’s (SCoP) Mainstreaming Initiative, assesses how scaling is currently embedded in the AF’s ...
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Scaling Climate and Development Action “Lessons from the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) and Aim4Scale

Description Accurate weather and climate predictions are essential for effective climate action and sustainable development. However, many Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States lack the necessary weather observation infrastructure to contribute critical data to the global system. To address this gap, the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) was launched in 2022 as an innovative financing mechanism to strengthen weather observation networks where they are needed most. A recent review recognized SOFF as a textbook example of a successful ...
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Insights from COP29: Where do we go from here on Scaling Climate Finance?

Description Join us for an engaging one-hour session as we delve into the key outcomes of COP29, focusing on the landmark decision to increase global climate financing from $100 billion to $300 billion annually. Despite this significant step forward, a recent report by Amar Bhattacharya, Vera Songwe, and Nicholas Stern highlights that external financing needs—including international public, private, and other sources—are projected to reach $1.3 trillion annually by 2035. What does this new commitment mean in the context of the ...
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The Urgency of Scaling Biodiversity and Climate Finance – Instruments to Raise Ambitions Exist. We Just Need to Be Bolder

South America is burning. From Brazil – the largest Amazonian country – to Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela, there are fires everywhere. This year so far, some 30 million hectares (74 million acres) have gone up in flames[1]. That’s an area the size of Italy. Cities as distant as São Paulo (Brazil), Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) and Bogotá (Colombia) have been engulfed in smoke, contributing to cardiovascular and respiratory emergencies and raising concerns about long-term ...
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Scaling Private Investment in Climate Adaptation and Biodiversity

Description Johannes Linn introduced the session and the new co-chairs of the Climate Change Working Group, Matt Eldridge and Karin Kemper. Matt highlighted the purpose of the session: bringing together practitioners in the fields of climate and nature investing to highlight practical approaches to scaling private investments in these areas. Emilie Mazzacurati began the discussion by speaking about private investment opportunities in adaptation as well as policy barriers and the need for definitions. Gregory Watson highlighted the massive gaps in ...
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Scaling Climate Action Post-COP27

This session discusses the topics of climate change, action, and finance. In this session panelists answer questions about their work and how scaling and finance intertwine with climate action. At the end, the panelists joined in a group discussion to connect their views on future steps for the climate change working group.  The topics of this session include: The centrality of investment: the need to accelerate investment to meet climate goals and replace aging capital Innovation and technology: how to ...
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