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Climate Adaptation Finance Tracker

Project-level tracking of adaptation and resilience finance commitments and disbursements across 112 recipient countries.

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Overview

The Climate Adaptation Finance Tracker records adaptation and resilience finance commitments and disbursements at project level, matching pledges to disbursement where donor and multilateral disclosure allows, across 112 recipient countries. Projects are tagged by adaptation sub-sector using a Rio-marker-derived internal classification, documented in the codebook, and the tracker distinguishes committed from disbursed amounts rather than reporting a single blended figure — a distinction that matters given well-documented gaps between the two in adaptation finance. It is intended to support comparative study of financing flows for governments, donors and researchers, and it does not adjudicate disputed classification decisions made by individual funds.

Access and downloads

This dataset is open. The extract below is free to download and reuse under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with attribution to the International Research Institute. The full series is also available on request in other formats, including a JSON API.

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Data preview
Preview of the first 6 rows of the Climate Adaptation Finance Tracker data extract.
project_idrecipient_countryiso3regionadaptation_subsectorfunder
CAF-0001EthiopiaETHAfricaWater resource managementAfrican Development Bank
CAF-0002RwandaRWAAfricaUrban resilienceAsian Development Bank
CAF-0003PakistanPAKAsiaWater resource managementWorld Bank
CAF-0004BrazilBRAAmericasWater resource managementBilateral (Japan)
CAF-0005ChinaCHNAsiaDisaster risk reductionAfrican Development Bank
CAF-0006VietnamVNMAsiaHealth-system adaptationWorld Bank

Showing the first 6 of 140 rows and 6 of 10 columns. Download the CSV or JSON above for the complete extract.

Coverage over time

Illustrative schematic — not source data.

4571879598991122015201720192021202220242026
Illustrative growth in countries covered by the Climate Adaptation Finance Tracker, from 2015 to 2026, reaching 112 countries.
YearCountries
201545
201771
201987
202195
202298
202499
2026112
Illustrative schematic of how coverage expanded across the reporting period, toward the current 112 countries (the most recent year, shown in the accent colour). Figures are indicative only — consult the dataset for exact counts.

Methodology

Commitments and disbursements are matched at project level and tagged by adaptation sub-sector using a Rio-marker-derived internal classification.

The full construction, weighting choices and coding rules are documented in the public codebook released with each version, and the dataset is published under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

Sources

  • Multilateral and bilateral climate-fund disclosures
  • National adaptation-plan reporting
  • Project-level disbursement records from development-finance institutions

Coverage

Temporal coverage
2015–2026, quarterly
Spatial coverage
112 recipient countries, concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Small Island Developing States
Unit of observation
project
Indicators
27 variables

Update frequency

Updated quarterly, reconciled against donor and multilateral disclosure cycles.

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