Climate change adaptation is finally front and center in these Paris climate change negotiations.
Developing countries want to see half of climate finance directed toward adaptation, and they want the initiatives managing those funds to start putting them into implementers' hands.
The Adaptation Fund is receiving more proposals than ever. Established under the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the fund was supposed to share in proceeds from carbon emissions reduction credits. But when the bottom dropped out on the carbon market, its board had to go looking for other benefactors.