NRDC Framework Analyzes Revenue-Generating Climate Adaptation Finance Opportunities
Summary
NRDC's new framework identifies and analyzes adaptation finance opportunities, focusing on how climate adaptation activities can generate revenue streams to attract financing. The article explains that adaptation-enabling businesses (selling goods/services for adaptation) and adaptation-dependent businesses (whose core operations depend on adaptation) represent the clearest financeable opportunities, though conditions remain narrow. It explores the cash flow challenges in adaptation finance and potential solutions.
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bskyNRDC Framework Analyzes Revenue-Generating Climate Adaptation Finance Opportunitiesnrdc.orgKey quotes
· 5 pulledThe clearest category of financeable adaptation involves activities that generate new revenue streams.
In these cases, the adaptation activity delivers a service for which there is a paying customer.
The resulting cash flows can support financing in the same way as they do for any other borrower.
While this category contains the clearest financeable opportunities, the conditions are relatively narrow.
The first is adaptation-enabling businesses: companies that sell goods and services to...
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