The Living Ghoen

The recently established Adaptation Fund Board (AFB) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has accredited the South African National Biodiversity Institute (Sanbi) as a national implementing entity.

The Adaptation Fund was established to finance adaptation projects and programmes in developing country parties to the Kyoto Protocol, and is financed from the share of proceeds on the clean development mechanism (CDM) project activities and other sources of funding. It is supervised and managed by the AFB, which is composed of 16 members and 16 alternates and meets at least twice a year.