INNOVATIONS
The 2024 UN Adaptation Gap Report estimates emerging markets will require USD 215–387 billion annually for climate adaptation from 2025–2030.
This shortfall in financing drives greater losses and damages, disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities.
Our approach
LOCALLY LED
Agrifood systems are the world’s biggest employer, providing livelihoods to over a billion people. Yet, their underpinning ecosystems are deeply tied to local contexts, making a one-size-fits-all investment approach untenable.
Using our established networks across SE Asia we identify impactful business opportunities with talented teams, and then partner closely to help them achieve long-term, sustainable growth, financial returns, and positive impact. We work closely with experts in impact investment, agronomy and climate science across the region. We use a systematic approach to identify solutions that can be scaled in order to deliver tangible adaptation and resilience outcomes.
TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN
Flows of climate adaptation finance are hampered by the lack of verifiable data, specifically with regards to climate resilience outcomes. The emerging biodiversity credits market can play a key role in driving better transparency and accountability outcomes.
Working with a climate-fintech and social enterprise, we are partnering to embed ecosystem resilience assets (ERAs) into the investment diligence, monitoring, and revenue model of AV’s agribusiness investment portfolio; creating both a measurable adaptation framework and a new income stream for investees and farmers. The ERAs that are purchased are instantly retired (no secondary market) and each year the funds from the sale of the assets are distributed to the stewards of the ecosystems (farmers, communities).
BLENDED FINANCE
Blended finance is the use of catalytic capital from public or philanthropic sources to increase private sector investment in sustainable development.
Adaptation Ventures will use these concessional and flexible finance structures to deliver tailored solutions for Southeast Asian agribusinesses. This will take the form of catalytic donor subsidy, guarantees and targeted technical assistance facilities at the fund structure level drive change. And, revenue-based finance and convertible debt instruments at the product level. This provides flexible finance for agribusinesses involved in the supply of agricultural inputs, agricultural production, transformation of agricultural products, and their distribution to consumers