Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate change impacts are increasing across the globe. Making our societies and ecosystems more resilient to those impacts is certainly one of the most pressing challenges of our times. However, adaptation efforts are being implemented too slowly.
At Perspectives, we strive to strengthen adaptation action by developing innovative approaches for fostering impactful activities on the ground and scaling up adaptation finance.
Perspectives has pioneered the work on adaptation metrics back in 2012 with the development of the Saved-Health Saved-Wealth approach—a concrete methodology for assessing adaptation benefits, e.g. outcomes and impacts of adaptation interventions.
Since then, Perspectives developed a wide range of services to support the achievement of the Global Goal on Adaptation of the Paris Agreement:
- Metrics and methodologies for estimating adaptation benefits of project interventions
- Monitoring and evaluation frameworks
- Adaptation policy instruments
- Evaluation of adaptation projects in multiple sectors
- Adaptation finance
- Climate risk assessment tools
- Guidance and knowledge products
Better understanding how action contributes to building resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate impacts is at the heart of our work. We firmly believe that ensuring impactful adaptation action is key for mobilising new and additional finance for adaptation.
Marjorie Ménard
Adaptation metrics
We develop methodologies and monitoring frameworks for understanding the adaptation benefits of activities and programmes from very diverse sectors.
Policy and
Finance
We contribute to the development of adaptation policies and adaptation finance instruments for reducing vulnerability and building resilience.
Evaluation
We support our clients understanding the impacts of their adaptation projects portfolios.
Climate Risks assessment
We assess the climate risks associated to the portfolio of our customers and support them designing strategies for addressing those risks.
We have been working on adaptation for 15 years, supporting various clients (e.g. GIZ, GCF, AfDB, DEval, REEEP, IRENA) on various methodology development, project evaluation, policy design and training. We combine research competence with pragmatic, solutions-oriented approaches to accelerate the implementation of adaptation solutions.
