Operationalizing the adaptation fund: Challenges in allocating funds to the vulnerable

Climate Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1086-1096

  Horstmann, Britta ^a  

^a GERMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation finance; Climate impacts; Financial mechanisms; Institutional innovation; Kyoto protocol; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEVELOPING WORLD; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; KYOTO PROTOCOL; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 79960022357     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2011.579392     Document Type: Article

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