Consulting services for the reduction of climate change in Burkina Faso
Country: Burkina Faso
Funder: United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Years: 2022 – 2023
Areas of Expertise: Climate change and natural resources.
The objective of the Local Climate Adaptation Fund (LoCAL) is to promote local communities and economies resilient to climate change by increasing investments in Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) at the local level in the target countries, thus contributing to the achievement of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular the specific objectives of eradicating poverty (SDG1), sustainable cities (SDG11) and climate action (SDG13).
The objectives are to increase the access of local governments to climate finance to implement climate change adaptation investments in participating countries and to establish a standard and internationally recognized country-based mechanism to channel climate finance and increase local resilience through of the PBCRG