SNV at London Climate Action Week 2026

As attention turns towards COP31, the focus is increasingly shifting from commitments to implementation. A critical challenge is how to ensure climate finance reaches the farmers, businesses and communities building resilience on the front lines of climate change. While adaptation needs continue to grow, investment remains far below what is required, particularly in regions most vulnerable to climate impacts.

Asia illustrates this challenge clearly. The region faces rising climate risks, yet adaptation finance continues to fall short of the scale needed to support resilient livelihoods, food systems and economies.

Against this backdrop, SNV is convening a closed-door roundtable during London Climate Action Week, 20-26 June 2026, to explore how adaptation finance can be mobilised and scaled across the region.

Asia’s adaptation finance gap continues to widen. While the need for investment grows, capital often fails to reach the people, enterprises and local systems where it can have the greatest impact.

This roundtable will bring together a select group of funders, policymakers and practitioners from government, finance, philanthropy and development to explore what is needed to unlock a new generation of financing mechanisms for the region. Discussions will focus on how promising ideas can move from concept to deployment and on the conditions required to enable investment at scale.

Facilitated by SNV Chief Executive Officer Simon O’Connell, the session will provide a space for open exchange, practical insights and new connections. Participants will consider questions such as: What would it take to establish a regional adaptation and resilience fund for Asia? And what barriers continue to prevent adaptation finance from reaching scale?

SNV brings lessons from its work across Asia and Africa—including climate-resilient rice production in Vietnam, climate adaptation accelerators, and blended finance initiatives that help promising solutions become investment-ready. Together, these experiences point to a common challenge: turning proven approaches into investable opportunities that strengthen resilience while delivering benefits for people, economies and the environment.

Delivering resilience will take more than ambitious targets. It calls for finance that reaches those driving change on the ground, stronger links across food, energy and water systems, and greater support for locally led action. These are the conversations shaping the road to COP31—and how climate ambition becomes climate delivery.