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    Who's fighting for the Adaptation Fund?

    Developing countries laud the Adaptation Fund's direct access structure, but others see the climate finance institution as a potential burden. Now, the small but symbolically important fund is waiting on negotiators during the final day at COP22 to agree what its role will be in the post-Paris agreement era.

    By Michael Igoe // 18 November 2016

    The Adaptation Fund — which has financed $358 million of mostly small-scale projects to help developing countries adapt to climate change — faces an uncertain future.

    Attached to an international treaty that has been replaced, and underwritten by a carbon credit exchange that saw its floor drop out, the fund is waiting on negotiators during the final hours at the 22nd Conference of Parties in Morocco to agree what its role will be in the post-Paris agreement era.

    Developing countries laud the Adaptation Fund’s direct access structure, which eliminates some of the red tape required to access funding and allows accredited countries to manage their projects instead of relying on multilateral organizations. Developing countries also enjoy a majority share of the fund’s governing board seats — and even though the board has never voted on anything, there is a sense of developing country ownership unique among climate finance mechanisms.

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