Nicholas Institute, National Religious Partnership for the Environment Workshop

On February 24, 2011, the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE), together with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, presented a workshop on U.S. funding for international climate adaptation. Last year's collapse of the federal effort to enact comprehensive climate legislation, along with continuing economic hardship and a change in congressional priorities following the midterm elections, have created a difficult funding environment for all U.S. foreign aid, including climate adaptation. This workshop was an opportunity for NRPE members and allied partners from within the faith-based environmental movement, who together are committed to helping developing nations secure the resources they need to adapt to climate change, to learn about the state of U.S efforts on international adaptation, and assess major proposals that have been put forward for how to mobilize additional funding.

• Nigel Purvis, Climate Advisers, "Adaptation Finance in Context"
• Heather McGray, World Resources Institute, "Adaptation Finance, An Update"
• Catherine Pattillo, International Monetary Fund, "Financing the Response to Climate Change"
• Kim Carnahan, International Emissions Trading Association, "Green NAMA Bonds"
• John Furlow, USAID, "Adaptation at USAID"
• Dina Brick, Catholic Relief Services; Ben Henneke, Clean Air Action Corporation, "Helping the Poor Adapt to Climate Change: an NGO Perspective"
• Dave Evans, Food for the Hungry, "Responding to Climate Change: Helping the Developing World Poor Adapt"

• The National Religious Partnership for the Environment

• USAID Climate Page, USAID's work to integrate climate change into development
• Track U.S. "Fast Start" climate financing pledges made at Copenhagen

• US Climate Action Network, climate finance resources