Finance
Roundup in Resilience: February 20, 2026
A new global standard, ISO 14092, launched to offer a common playbook for climate adaptation, São Paulo found itself in a climate paradox of near‐record low reservoirs and lethal flash floods, the EU’s scientific advisers urged Brussels to plan for a 3.3°C world, the Green Climate Fund approved one of the largest adaptation packages yet for glacier‐dependent regions, and climate change media coverage fell 14% in 2025.
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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.
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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.
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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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Roundup in Resilience: September 19, 2025
The World Economic Forum quantified the climate's economic toll, business leaders made the case for revolutionising private adaptation finance, the UN warned of an increasingly erratic global water cycle, Brazil confronts a surge in mosquito-borne disease, and military spending starves climate adaptation funding.
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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.
Analysis
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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.
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Roundup in Resilience: August 29, 2025
Brazil secured Amazonian support for a $125 billion forest fund, World Water Week put water at the heart of the climate fight, attribution science showed climate change made Mediterranean wildfires 10 times more likely, warming European waters force a great fish migration, and a 40-year study revealed South American forests can't keep up with warming.
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