The climate change causes concern due to the material and immaterial impacts that society has.
The cities are more exposed to these impacts, because concentrate people and essential services,
such as hospitals, banks, schools, among others. The adaptation and mitigation of climate
change in cities is a means of coping with impacts, however it requires financial investments
that may come from public, private or climate funds. The climate finance is an important topic
in the debate on climate change, it aims to concentration financial investments that are directed
to countries or cities to assist in the elaboration and implementation of adaptive or mitigating
measures in the face of climate change. However, access to climate finance is still restricted
due to factors such as technical or organizational capacity, and scenarios of social and structural
vulnerability of stakeholders in financing. Another restrictive factor of access is that the sources
of financing have limited financial resources. Through this, funding sources need criteria to
select funding recipients, one of the criteria involves the applicants' readiness and vulnerability
scenario. The climate change and the accentuation of extreme events also have an impact on
the Amazon; therefore, actions preservation and conservation have always been a global public
and private interest. The Amazonian cities have also suffered from the impacts of climate
change, so its insertion in debates involving climate change and climate finance is of paramount
importance to promote their development combined with facing the adverse damage from
climate change. In this scenario, the research aims to elucidate the climate financing scenario
for Amazonian cities and their levels of adaptation considering vulnerability and readiness.
Therefore, the methodology for the climate financing scenario of Amazonian cities uses stages
of searching, processing and analyzing data from climate financing projects. For the adaptation
levels, the propositions used by Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative in the Notre
Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) project, known as the Country Index and Urban
Adaptation Assessment, are used on a methodological basis aiming at the formulation of the
Adaptation Level Index of Amazonian cities facing extreme flood events.
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