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Roundup in Resilience: December 5, 2025

Exploring whether COP30’s call to triple climate finance by 2035 can be implemented, AI guides Indian farmers through monsoon chaos, Asia’s cities need $1.7 trillion annually for climate adaptation, agroforestry shows promise for West African cocoa under specific conditions, and genomic sequencing reveals evolutionary resilience strategies in butterflies and moths.

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David Izikowitz

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Roundup in Resilience: November 28, 2025

Malaria mosquitoes expand habitats across Africa, Bangladesh's coastal households struggle, Albania commits €8.46 billion to climate adaptation through 2036, UAE research reveals stormy days set to double and Vietnam tallies $3 billion in storm losses, exposing critical adaptation gaps.

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Nov 25, 2025

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Issue 13: The Global Goals on Adaptation Have Finally Earned a Yardstick. Shame About the Funding

Examining the Belém Package and the stark contrast between its new resilience metrics and the funding pledged to meet them. The world has created a high-fidelity surveillance system to measure its growing fragility, yet by refusing to fund the necessary structural repairs, this compliance trap risks measuring misery rather than curing it.

Technology

Issue 11: Building Resilience or Building Debt? A Review of the State of the Climate Adaptation Capital Stack

Taking a critical look at the adaptation capital stack - the financial market infrastructure meant to deliver more than $200 billion annually for climate resilience. Despite sophisticated instruments and institutional mobilisation, fundamental design flaws keep adaptation finance trapped at a fraction of what's needed.

Analysis

Roundup in Resilience: October 31, 2025

UNEP reported developing countries receive less than 10% of needed adaptation funds, heat‐related deaths hit 546,000 annually, the UN’s Guterres acknowledged humanity's failure to meet the 1.5°C target, elite athletes launched Adapt2Win urging governments to prioritise adaptation finance, an Indonesian naval officer linked climate change to terrorism and piracy, and attribution science confirmed Hurricane Melissa was made four times more likely by warming.

Resilience

Issue 10: Are Existing Climate Adaptation Standards Fit For Purpose or Just Performance Art

Exploring the uncomfortable truth about climate adaptation standards. Five years into ISO 14090, organisations can demonstrate full compliance without proving they're any more resilient. As the effectiveness of adaptation projects drops sharply beyond 1.5°C warming, the stakes for getting measurement right have never been higher.

Analysis

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Issue 9: Why Venture Capital is not Flooding into the Adaptation Opportunity

Exploring venture capital’s blind spot: climate adaptation. Investors obsess over risk intelligence while neglecting physical defences, leaving the startups that could protect cities, food and grids stranded in a funding desert.

Technology

Issue 5: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Brings for Climate Adaptation

Evaluating what America’s retreat from climate ambition under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act means for adaptation. With federal climate funds gutted but new resilience emerging through defence, water and health spending, adaptation is being reshaped by stealth.

Technology

Issue 2: The State of Financing the Innovation we Need in Liveability Technologies

Seeds of Survival: Evaluating the state of infrastructure, agriculture and health technologies for adapting to a warmer world, and the increasing prominence of adaptation in climate finance negotiations

Technology

FINANCE

Roundup in Resilience: November 7, 2025

Pre-COP30 preparations crystallised around adaptation themes, adaptation market design flaws in the spotlight with blended finance stalled at $15.5 billion in 2024, Vietnam confronted a succession of storms reshaping its urban strategy, Fidelity Bank Ghana attempts to scale adaptation finance across the continent, and the Philippines showcased regional adaptation leadership.

Finance

Issue 8: Beyond the Billions - Where is Adaptation Finance Actually Going? (and is it working)

Exploring whether adaptation finance is doing its job. The cash has doubled, but the cracks are widening - suggesting the resilience business is still more aspiration than achievement.

Finance

Issue 6: Monetising Resilience - Building the Financial Architecture for Resilience Credits

Exploring the rise of ‘resilience credits’ as an opportunity for private sector adaptation finance. With private capital sticking to the sidelines and measurement challenges unresolved, early pilots and new financial architectures are beginning to show how adaptation could finally scale.

Finance

POLICY

Issue 5: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Brings for Climate Adaptation

Policy

Issue 4: Innovation in Adaptation Finance - What New Models Are Emerging?

The novel models aiming to bridge the mammoth climate adaptation financing gap, with blended finance demonstrating a crowding in effect, and adaptation finance on a growth trajectory.

Policy

Issue 3: Tipping Points - What Happens When Earth's Lungs Stop Breathing

Amazon dieback and what this means for the future of food, money and migration flows across Amazonia, but bright sparks in significantly reduced rates of deforestation and raising a mega fund for rainforest protection

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Issue 10: Are Existing Climate Adaptation Standards Fit For Purpose or Just Performance Art

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Issue 9: Why Venture Capital is not Flooding into the Adaptation Opportunity

Issue 5: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Brings for Climate Adaptation

Issue 2: The State of Financing the Innovation we Need in Liveability Technologies

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Roundup in Resilience: November 7, 2025

Issue 8: Beyond the Billions - Where is Adaptation Finance Actually Going? (and is it working)

Issue 6: Monetising Resilience - Building the Financial Architecture for Resilience Credits

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Issue 5: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Brings for Climate Adaptation

Issue 4: Innovation in Adaptation Finance - What New Models Are Emerging?

Issue 3: Tipping Points - What Happens When Earth's Lungs Stop Breathing

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