the paris agreement calls for a balance between adaptation and mitigation finance and establishes an adaptation goal raising the profile of adaptation and encouraging developed countries to increase support for adaptation particularly amongst the most vulnerable developing countries this emphasis on ldcs and sids is a recognition of the needs of countries that are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the case of small island developing states sids strong growth has been registered in the volume of official climaterelated development finance received over the past decade reaching an alltime high of of total oda they received in oecd g the share of climate finance targeting adaptation activities which support many key development challenges facing sids has progressively increased as well