Can adaptation to a changing climate also enhance local and provincial economies, thereby creating jobs and new avenues for private sector investment? When adapting to climate change, how can the affected and neighbouring communities be taken on board and motivated to buy into the concept? While these questions are not typical when developing local adaptation projects, they have played a major role in strategically designing the Transformative River Management Programme (TRMP) in eThekwini Municipality (Durban), which the CFF is supporting through a Senior Project Advisor based in the city for a period of 2.5 years.
The CFF held a unique session at the 2018 ICLEI Resilient Cities Conference on how to finance adaptation projects - using the examples of global cities.
Accra hosted the first ever African workshop organised by C40, where nine cities collaborated to reduce their vulnerability to environmental disasters and to adapt to climate change.
The CFF have offered to help Durban develop the business case to self-fund community-based management of thousands of kilometres of its watercourses - providing multiple-co-benefits.
