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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.

Infrastructure

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.

Investment

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

Roundup in Resilience: November 21, 2025

COP30 negotiators haggled over 100 indicators to measure progress while starving frontline communities of resources, Canada committed CAD$263 million to IFAD's smallholder farmer adaptation, a landmark FAO-UNDP report on agrifood found that only 16% of measures in NAPs address climate impacts or vulnerable populations, and a call to triple adaptation finance commitments meets developed world barriers.

News

Roundup in Resilience: November 14, 2025

COP30 in Belém crystallised adaptation's dual reality: adaptation philanthropy surged 120% to $870 million, Gates committed $1.4 billion for smallholder farmer adaptation, and a $300 million health-climate coalition was mobilised, However, African and Arab nations pushed back against adaptation indicators fearing unfair fiscal burdens, and while funding commitments surged the $284–365 billion annual adaptation gap persists.

Investment

Issue 12: The Resilience Dividend: Cashing in on Climate Adaptation Technologies

Challenging the idea that adaptation finance doesn’t yield returns. With private capital still viewing adaptation as a high-risk cost centre, we’re exploring the mature, bankable technologies that are already delivering clear, quantifiable returns and moving resilience from the cost to the investment column.

Technology

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.

Infrastructure

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 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