an activity is classified as related to climate change adaptation if it intends to reduce the vulnerability of human or natural systems to the current and expected impacts of climate change by maintaining or increasing resilience by increasing ability to adapt to or absorb climate change stresses shocks and variability andor by helping reduce exposure to them oecd a the dac crs also tracks flows from some southsouth cooperation sources this database does not include financial flows at the activitylevel from some nondac member donors such as the people s republic of china hereafter china and the russian federation hereafter russia or private sector sources which are presumably prov iding a significant amount of finance to the eecca region