Global climate change adaptation finance data

This data, linking World Bank project funding to climate change adaptation and mitigation, was derived from a keyword-matching approach explained in the co-authors’ 2021 Sustainability article (referenced below). It shows that from 2010 to 2018, the share of climate-change-related finance devoted to adaptation in World Bank projects increased considerably. The data indicate that adaptation funding tends to be directed more to more climate-vulnerable nations and those with greater state fragility, but not to low-income countries versus higher-income countries. The data was used in Eisenstadt, Todd A. Olawole, Ifeoluwa; and Toman, Michael A. “Climate Adaptation Finance in World Bank Economic Development Programs: The Challenges of Systemic Transformation via “Scaling Up”” in the journal Sustainability. The ZIP file made available here contains the dataset in Microsoft Excel format and its codebook in Microsoft Word format. The creators would like to thank Harsh Anuj of the World Bank for his help with data and calculations.