Financing Adaptation and Resilience: Opportunities and Risks

Key insights to develop capital market solutions in adaptation and resilience financing

Financing Adaptation and Resilience: Opportunities and Risks identifies and discusses drivers and challenges for investing in adaptation and resilience and necessary changes for developing capital market solutions. Taking a practical approach through the use of case studies spanning both urban and rural settings, and including major international and national institutional investors as well as financial institutions, this research highlights various adaptation and resilience investment and financing models, responding to the following key questions:

• What is the investment proposition and the role of the private sector in adaptation and resilience?
• What are the main investment models and financing instruments for private investors in these areas?
• What are the major investment drivers for institutional investors such as pension funds and insurers?

Financing Adaptation and Resilience: Opportunities and Risks is directly relevant to financial professionals and investors across all parts of the world seeking to incorporate adaptation finance within their portfolios and make returns. The material is also of value for developers and policy makers active in the field.