Microfinance institutions already have pre-existing networks of access to the rural poor - especially women - who are also particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The nature of microfinance lending, meanwhile, consisting of high volume, limited value loans is also consistent with the fundamental nature of a majority of adaptation actions that will ultimately consist of thousands of decentralized actions by households, communities and private actors as they continuously seek to internalize current and anticipated climate risks in their various activities. What is currently the degree of synergy between actual projects that are being funded by microfmance and adaptation needs? Is the success of some microfmance projects at risk of being compromised by climate change?