Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a proven cost-effective approach to address interlinked societal challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Though there is still insufficient funding for it with little funding flowing to local implementors including local communities, indigenous people, local NGOs and governments.

This collection explores four distinctive but complementary finance delivery mechanisms from China, Peru, Uganda and South Africa. Those mechanisms can help channel the much-needed finance for EbA to those local change makers so they can collectively implement EbA at scale.

They point to important building blocks to ensure finance for nature and climate are well spent and support those who are bearing the brunt of the negative impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change. They all point to the need for long-term and patient finance to strengthen community-based organisations, nurture multistakeholder partnerships and enhance capacities that can foster the collective actions that can transform landscapes and build resilience in the long-term.

This collection is developed as part of a IKI-funded project entitled ‘ Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation:strengthening the evidence and informing policy ,’ which has documented important practical ways to scale up EbA implementation globally including how to better finance EbA.