Earth Security is creating an innovative platform facility to enable private sector companies operating in LDCs and other developing countries to develop a business case for investing in nature-based solutions, identifying and funding local projects that deliver adaptation and resilience value to both businesses and local communities. Earth Security is working with Global Environment Facility and its accredited agency, the UN Industrial Development Organisation.  

The project assessed potential innovations and investment opportunities for enterprise-driven models aimed at strengthening resilience in fragile and conflict-prone regions highly vulnerable to climate change. This included identifying key thematic areas for investment and financing to support enterprise development for adaptation within these challenging contexts. Building on this enhanced understanding of the investment landscape, the project provided acceleration grants to local actors with innovative, enterprise-based solutions.

This project will create conditions for accelerating uptake of adaptation benefits into mitigation projects by piloting different approaches in Least Developing countries (LDCs), with a focus on agriculture, forestry and other land use projects. By a) creating the tools, methodological support and networks designed to generate a pipeline of projects, increase awareness of opportunities and benefits, and support private sector proponents in their efforts.

This project will support the establishment of a certification scheme for the portfolio of Inclusive Finance Service Providers (IFSP) dedicated to finance practices and technologies supporting climate change adaptation and resilience impacts for smallholder farmers and rural communities. Such intervention will generate trust by investors and hence enable relocation of existing financial flow, as well as attracting new financial flow, towards climate change adaptation for smallholder farmers and rural communities.

This project will assist Antigua and Barbuda, Egypt, and Uganda in applying climate-smart planning best practices to their capital investment’s preparation processes. In particular, the project will equip government officials with methodologies, tools, and training to enhance adaptation and mitigation measures in their planning cycle. For each capital investment project that will benefit from this technical assistance program, alternative designs and technologies will be proposed for consideration.

Focusing on 3 cities - English Harbour Town in Antigua and Barbuda, Savannakhet in Lao PDR and Chokwe in Mozambique- this project will increase the target cities' capacity to attract Development Financial Institutions (DFI) Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) finance by identifying and linking to DFI CCA finance (grants and concessional loans) feasible and most impactful CCA projects while laying down foundations for an increased and rated credit and; And in the long term, this project will increase the cities creditworthiness and unlock its access to innovative private financing mechanisms for

The Project seeks to provide technical assistance to adaptation SMEs in the agricultural and forestry sectors in the form of pre-investment support to improve their business case for growth and/or expansion.