box presents some initial lessons learned from development provider efforts to work with small businesses for climate change adaptation development partners support projects that are building resilience capacity and piloting risk transfer approaches among firms as well as building awareness of the risks of impending climate change on business supply chains in developing countries trabacchi and mazza one example is the private sector adaptation to climate change psacc programme implemented by giz on behalf of the german federal ministry for economic cooperation and development bmz whose fourpronged approach focuses on raising awareness providing advisory services including on vulnerability analysis and adaptation financing capacity building and dissemination of knowledge giz a b