Adaptation Strategies
Climate change impacts are increasing across the globe. Making our societies and ecosystems more resilient to those impacts is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, yet adaptation efforts are being implemented too slowly. At Perspectives, we strengthen adaptation action by developing innovative approaches for fostering impactful activities on the ground and scaling up adaptation finance.
Perspectives pioneered the work on adaptation metrics back in 2012, with the Saved-Health Saved-Wealth approach for comparing the outcomes of different adaptation options. Since then we have built a wide range of services to support robust adaptation action: metrics and methodologies for assessing adaptation benefits, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, adaptation policy instruments, and project evaluation across multiple sectors. We also assess and support the design of adaptation finance mechanisms tailored to specific climate risks.
01National and sectoral adaptation MEL systems
Your adaptation actions are associated with tangible and credible impacts, and monitoring and evaluation frameworks are aligned to NDC and NAP transparency requirements.
- M&E frameworks aligned with NDC and NAP tracking and transparency
- Adaptation co-benefits methodologies
- Capacity building on MEL systems
Governments · International organisations · e.g. UN agencies, Bilateral cooperation, MDBs
02Adaptation project MEL systems
The contribution of your project to climate change adaptation is made tangible and specific to the local context.
- Design of adaptation metrics adapted to the local context
- Development of fully-fledged methodologies for assessing adaptation benefits
Public and private sector clients · e.g. UN and bilateral agencies
03Climate impact assessment of funding vehicles
You understand the climate impact of your portfolio, backed by sound accounting frameworks, processes and tools.
- Review of adaptation impact indicators
- Development of tools for supporting project developers in estimating the adaptation impact of their projects
- Assessment of adaptation funding proposals
Climate funds and investors · Development agencies · e.g. Mitigation Action Facility, GIZ, CDP, Green Climate Fund
04Innovative adaptation finance
Scaling finance flows for adaptation action through innovative finance instruments.
- Research and design of innovative financial mechanisms for adaptation
- Identify and design financial instruments for specific vulnerable populations and against targeted climate hazards (e.g. heatwaves)
Development agencies and development banks · Foundations · e.g. GIZ, African Development Bank
05Scoping and design of climate action
Your adaptation activities are scoped and designed to achieve ambitious climate impact and meet funding requirements.
- Scoping and design of concrete adaptation activities
- Funding proposal development (GCF, Adaptation Fund)
- Capacity building on funding proposal development
Governments · Development agencies and international organisations · e.g. UN agencies, GGGI, GIZ
Adaptation to climate change
National Adaptation Plans, vulnerability and risk assessment, adaptation metrics, loss and damage, and adaptation finance access. We have worked on adaptation for more than 15 years. We focus on how action builds resilience and reduces vulnerability, because demonstrating impact is what mobilises new and additional adaptation finance.
In 2012 we pioneered the Saved-Health Saved-Wealth approach, a methodology for quantifying the health and economic benefits of adaptation interventions. We continue to develop the metrics, MEL frameworks and climate-risk tools that make resilience measurable and fundable.
