Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunities
CGAP Focus Note Nr. 53, 2009
This paper proposes ideas for what one can do to combat climate change at the household, microbusiness, MFI, and systemic levels with the aim that MFI managers will be inspired by some of the examples provided, some of which being related to microinsurance programmes.
Responses to climate change fall into two broad categories: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation focuses on reducing the severity of climate change by limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Adaptation focuses on taking measures that help people adjust to changed conditions. Many actions, like promoting clean energy products and agricultural innovation, support both mitigation and adaptation.
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