Intervention · Intervention

Climate finance

Intervention encompassing financial instruments and mechanisms - including index-based insurance, contingency funds, credit, and risk transfer - that help farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, and institutions manage, transfer, or recover from climate-related losses.

Definition source: UNFCCC; FAO/CGIAR climate finance frameworks

Synonyms

Climate risk finance, climate risk financing, adaptation finance instrument, Climate finance information system

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Adaptation finance, Mitigation finance, Blended finance, Climate change fund, Payment for ecosystem services, Loss and damage finance, Carbon market, Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Provenance

Domain expert; Lexicon consensus

Identifier

INT_113 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_113
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_113)