1. Adaptation Funding Presentation put together by Benito Müller
at the ECBI Oxford Seminar
1 September 2006

2. Adaptation Funding Needs
a) Investment-based Estimates (World Bank)
Table K1. Preliminary Estimates of Annual Adaptation Costs in Developing Countries
Source: World Bank Environmentally & Socially Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Vice Presidencies, ‘Clean Energy And Development: Towards An Investment Framework’ Development Committee (Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries), Washington D.C./USA: 5 April 2006
b) NAPA-based Estimates (urgent and immediate needs)
Conservative/Average Extrapolations [for G77+China]
based on
NAPA costs per inhabitant [$2.4bn/$3.8bn]
NAPA costs per GDP [$5.4bn/$9.2bn], and
NAPA costs per land area impacted by human activity [$11.5bn/$15.3bn]
$2bn
$6bn
$10bn
$14bn
$18bn
LDC
G77+Ch.
non-Annex I
(A)
(B)
(C)
Source: Benito Müller and Cameron Hepburn, ‘An “International Air Travel Adaptation Levy” (IATAL): Outline Proposal’ EV 36, Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, September 2006

3. Multilateral/International Adaptation Funding
Source: Benito Müller and Cameron Hepburn, ‘An “International Air Travel Adaptation Levy” (IATAL): Outline Proposal’ EV 36, Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, September 2006

4. Operationalising the Adaptation Fund
Presentation put together by
Amjad Abdulla (Maldives), Haroldo de Oliveira Machado (Brazil),
Bubu Pateh Jallow (The Gambia), Manjeev S Puri (India)
on behalf of the the 2006 ECBI Oxford Fellows
at the ECBI Oxford Seminar
1 September 2006

5. Principles
The decision making processes of the Adaptation Fund should be flexible, transparent and uncomplicated. They should be balanced and reflect the needs of the developing country Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
Funding should be reliable and adequate and on a full adaptation cost basis

6. Governance Structure COP/MOP Executive Body Trustee Technical Panel
Executive Body is under the authority
of COP/MOP
Executive Body
Trustee
Technical Panel
Secretariat
(Regional Offices/Trustees)
Implementing Agencies

7. Governance: Executive Body
Balanced representation
1 from each regional group (Africa, Asia & Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, Western Europe & Others)
1 AOSIS
1 LDC
2 Annex 1
2 non-Annex 1
11 Alternate members
Decision making procedures
Follow the example of JISC, CDMEB, Compliance commitee (Consensus, if not possible ¾ majority of the members present and voting)

8. Eligibility
Developing country Parties to the Kyoto Protocol are eligible for the funding from the Adaptation Fund to meet costs of adapting to climate change.
Funding should be directed particularly to activities benefiting the most vulnerable communities