The session directly supports COP31 priorities on adaptation, climate finance, technology development and transfer, and implementation, focusing on how fragile and conflict-affected contexts can translate climate priorities into bankable, implementable and scalable investments. Water provides a critical entry point, linking adaptation across agriculture, food security, livelihoods, energy, health and ecosystems. The session will explore how blended finance, locally appropriate technologies, enabling policies and delivery systems can help move from innovation and pilots to investment and scale. The discussion will generate practical messages on improving access to adaptation finance, connecting national priorities and NDCs/NAPs with investment pipelines, strengthening technology transfer and local delivery capacity, and designing conflict-sensitive and locally led approaches to resilience. By bringing together governments, communities, innovators, implementing agencies, researchers, financial institutions and climate funds, the session will contribute to COP31’s focus on turning climate commitments into practical implementation and impact at scale.
