Financing climate adaptation: What works, what doesn’t, and can carbon credits help to bridge the gap?

In first episode of Development Dialogues, our new series with VoxDevTalks, host Catherine Cheney is joined by Namrata Kala, Rohini Pande, and Catherine Wolfram to discuss research on climate adaptation measures in lower-income countries, how to pay for them, and the role voluntary carbon markets and compliance markets can play.
Namrata Kala is an Associate Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also on the Editorial Board of VoxDev and served as Senior Editor for the VoxDevLit on Climate Adaptation.
Rohini Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. She is also the faculty director of Inclusion Economics at Yale.
Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. From March 2021 to October 2022, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury.

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