Guide to Climate Change and Financial Inclusion

This knowledge review focuses on successes and challenges in building up climate resilience, across three dimensions: disaster preparedness, response, and adaptation to climate change.

This publication presents the outcomes of the European Microfinance Award 2019 on "Strengthening Resilience to Climate Change" and shares best practices on how financial institutions can help increase their clients' resilience.

The review explores evidence on the impact of financial services in increasing investment in the face of risk, strategies for risk reduction, facilitating risk preparedness and responding when a shock hits.

This study finds evidence that microfinance facilitates coping by reducing sensitivity to environmental and climate hazards. However, credit limits are likely to restrict its role to incremental adaptations, which may not meaningfully reduce vulnerability.

This brief summarizes existing evidence from rigorous randomized control trials that suggest ways in which financial services can help the poor build their resilience and mitigate the risks associated with climate change, as well as reduce contributions to climate change.

This briefing note was prepared ahead of the UN Climate Summit in 2019 to examine the opportunities for investing in Sharia-compliant financial products.

This research brief establishes the case for enabling microfinance through intermediated concessionary climate finance and provides existing examples of local bank and microfinance mechanisms and solutions currently in place.

This special report examines the roles of financial regulators in disaster risk reduction from a financial inclusion perspective and highlights examples of good practices in the AFI network.

This study explores the overlaps of green finance and financial inclusion in addressing the issues of environmental change, financial stability, and social equity, and calls for the integration of both finance concepts into the emerging inclusive green finance (IGF) policy area.

This second edition of AFI’s Inclusive Green Finance Policy Landscape Survey reveals new and emerging policy practices that are guiding the transition to more inclusive and resilient low-carbon economies.

This case study examines the early work of the Reserve Bank of Fiji to enact policies that will transition Fiji’s financial sector to a green economy and help the population cope with the financial losses of climate change and adapt to new livelihoods and environmental realities.

This policy document presents a synthesis of the key lessons and implications of climate change needs and solutions for MSMEs in developing countries with an emphasis on the implications for governments and development agencies to consider.