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The Business of Adapatation Resource Center

The role of the private sector in adaptation is a Cinderella subject that requires further analysis and study. As a contribution to the emerging field AccountAbility has collected a library of resources including AccountAbility's work, our networks and others on the subject.

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• Agrawala, S and Fankhauser, S (2009 Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Cost Benefits and Policy Instruments, OECD.
  
• Barclays Environmental Risk Management and Acclimatise (2007) Credit Risk Impacts of a Changing Climate
  
• CERES (2009) Water Scarcity and Climate Change: Growing Risk for Business and Investors
  
• ECA Project (2009) Economics of Climate Change - McKinsey/Swiss Re/GEF - (forthcoming)
  
• Nelson, J (2008) Corporate Action on Climate Adaptation and Development: Mobilizing New Business Partnerships to Build Climate Change Resilience in Developing Countries and Communities
  
• Karamchandani, A, Kubzansky, M and Frandano, P (2009) Emerging Markets, Emerging Models: Market Based Solutions to the Challenges of Global Poverty, Monitor Group.
  
• Nairobi Work Program - Private Sector Initiative
  
• Oxfam America (2009) The New Adaptation Marketplace
  
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change (2006). Getting Ahead of the Curve: Corporate Strategies that Address Climate Change
  
• Project Catalyst (2009) Adaptation to climate change: potential costs and choices for a global agreement.
  
• SIDA/CSR ASIA/WRI (2009) Making Climate Your Business Private Sector Adaptation in South East Asia
  
• Tomorrow's Company (2009) Private Sector Climate Change Adaptation Efforts in the Developing World - An Indian Case Study
  
• UNEP FI (2009) Green Paper: Financing a Global Deal on Climate Change
  
• WBCSD (2008) Adaptation: An Issue Brief for Business
  
• AccountAbility and IIED - The Business of Adaptation, UNFCCC briefing
  
• Sir Nicholas Stern (Ed.) - Meeting the Climate Challenge: Using Public Funds to Leverage Private Investment in Developing Countries', The Grantham Institute.
  
• World Economic Forum Task Force on Low Carbon Prosperity Working Group on Adaptation - Recommendations to the G20
  
• World Resources Institute (2008) Roots of Resilience: Growing the Wealth of the Poor

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