Climate Finance, Business and Community: The Benefits of Co-operation on Adaptation

This report suggests reasons and tools for the private sector to act, particularly in developing countries, to limit the impact of climate change. Reasons to act are clear. Mining and drinks companies will face more erratic water supplies. Food companies will see increasingly drought and flood affecting crops. Infrastructure will be threatened by sea-level rise and floods. But there will also be opportunities to develop new ideas, whether for drought resistant crops or improved ways of saving water. This report shows how the private sector can plan ahead for these problems and seize such opportunities. And it illustrates that businesses will be most successful if they do this in partnership with developing country governments and people.