Clare Shakya is director and Ritu Bharadwaj is senior researcher of IIED’s Climate Change group
Women involved in construction of water conservation structures under MGNREGS in Uttar Pradesh, India (Photo: Ritu Bharadwaj, IIED)
India supports 17% of the world’s population with only 4% of the world’s freshwater. Since 1950, water availability per family has fallen by 70% and 600 million people face acute water shortage. India, the UK and the Netherlands are exploring a collaboration to address this water security issue.
But this not just a
quantity challenge. As the disconnect between India’s central, state and sectoral priorities, limited staff and budget, and signs of emerging conflict over water sharing between states illustrate, this is also (as in many other countries) an issue of governance.
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As the climate crisis continues to worsen, climate finance remains a fraction of what is needed. The Climate Policy Initiative estimates that $579 billion was spent on average on climate finance in 2017/18. This includes domestic and international investment from both the public and private sectors towards climate mitigation and adaptation actions. Of this amount, only $30 billion five percent was allocated for climate adaptation. This amount stands in stark contrast to $180 billion, which the Global Commission on Adaptation estimates is needed every year to build resilience to current and future climate impacts. This catastrophic funding gap is intensifying climate security threats and elevating the vulnerability of people across the world, particularly in coastal urban centers.
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Forty governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs, including UN Development Programme, Climate Investment Funds, Zurich Investment Group, BRAC and Slum Dwellers International, have committed a new set of principles to ensure climate adaptation is led by local people. ‘ The Principles for Locally Led Adaptation ’ were recently launched at the Climate Adaptation Summit.
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), World Resources Institute (WRI), and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) facilitated the Principles’ development with over 50 other organisations under the Global Commission for Adaptation, steered by commissioners Sheela Patel of Slum Dwellers International and BRAC executive director Dr Muhammad Musa.