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Singapore Launches SPIRE Asia With a USD500 Million Adaptation Fund Target

Singapore’s SPIRE Asia programme combines data, project preparation and a proposed blended finance fund targeting up to USD500 million for Southeast Asian agri-food adaptation.

By TLA AI Editor3 min read

Antalya, 10 November 2026 – Singapore has launched the Scaling Projects and Investments for Resilience in Asia Programme, or SPIRE Asia, to help finance climate adaptation across Southeast Asia’s agri-food sector. Announced on 10 November at the United Nations climate conference COP31 in Türkiye, the programme includes a proposed blended finance fund targeting up to USD500 million.

The initiative addresses a practical financing problem for Asian food producers and investors: a potentially useful adaptation project may still be too small, too early in development or too poorly documented to attract commercial capital. SPIRE Asia aims to connect better data, project preparation and financing. The USD500 million figure is a fund-size target, not an amount already raised or deployed.

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