Water Finance Climate Toolkit

This is a toolkit that elaborates on the links between the water and sanitation sector and climate change, outlines how public development banks (PBDs) can leverage the climate finance potential of their activities, and details activities and PBD case studies of mitigation and adaptation from around the world. In short, this water and climate finance toolkit aims to: - Explain how the water and sanitation sector is closely linked to climate change, and explain climate change finance tracking principles in water and sanitation projects through concrete examples: investing in water often means investing in climate change. - Support PDBs in harnessing the climate finance potential of their activities so as to attract additional and/or more attractive resources. - Exhaustively list activities contributing to mitigation and those contributing to adaptation. Each action category will be illustrated with a case study, from PDBs of various scales and geographies.