Climate adaptation

This cohort is working toward the Accelerator's target for climate adaptation. The ambition, or "flagship destination," is to improve the lives of 1 billion people by 2035 by enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, protecting ecosystems, and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a focus on climate-related extreme events.  

The climate is already changing, and we are not on track to cut GHG emissions as rapidly as required to protect people and ecosystems from the damaging impacts of climate change. New solutions are urgently needed to protect people from extreme climate-related events such as extreme heat, floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires.

Achieving adaptive and regenerative capacity for communities and natural ecosystems at scale requires a collaborative effort among policy experts, universities, governments, NGOs, local authorities, financial institutions, corporations, and communities worldwide.

Accelerator contacts

Projects

Projects in the climate adaptation cohort offer solutions ranging from technology, policy, and finance interventions for climate adaptation to data, tools, and frameworks for decision-making. By driving progress across diverse domains, they bolster adaptive capacity and strengthen the resilience of communities and natural ecosystems facing climate-related extremes—all with the collective potential to improve the lives of a billion people.