Climate change creates risk and volatility, climate finance helps assess, mitigate, and be resilient to those risks. In order to tackle climate change and achieve a transition to a clean and resilient economy, an extraordinary mobilization of finance has to be made.

The conservation and good management of forests is a key element in the fight to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Every year forests are responsible for removing more than a quarter of all CO2 emissions.

Climate change is posing significant challenges to development perspectives worldwide affecting livelihoods and national economies.

Environmental management is concerned with the understanding of the structure and function of the earth system, as well as of the ways in which humans relate to their environment (Barrow, 2005).

Strategic Planning is a systematic process of envisioning a desired future and translating this vision into broadly defined goals or objectives and a sequence of steps to achieve them.

Social and Environmental Safeguards or Standards are increasingly used by development banks, conservation or funding institutions/agencies to ensure that potential social and environmental risks of the activities they support have been duly considered from the time of planning through to the time after implementation has finished.