How Millions of Lives Could Be Saved by Closing the Climate Adaptation Finance Gap

The Executive Director of BRAC, Asif Saleh, writes that we have both a moral imperative and a clear economic case for supporting low-income countries to adapt to the climate crisis. Bringing the expertise and resources of the public and private sectors together, working with governments, could save millions of lives and billions in disaster response, and slow climate migration. Without it, what is happening in Bangladesh will happen to the rest of the world.

The Local Adaptation Champions Awards, organized by the Global Center on Adaptation, is highlighted as an example of climate adaptation projects in action.