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Making the Case for Climate and Nature Resilience Investments: The Need to Revise Growth and Debt Sustainability Frameworks

Why integrating the economic benefits of climate and nature resilience into growth and debt sustainability frameworks is needed to incentivize investments in resilience

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From Risk to Resilience: How insurance can mobilize Disaster Finance and Climate Investment in Vulnerable Economies

Disaster costs are rising, and vulnerable economies are bearing the brunt. Insurance is a powerful but underused tool that could enable USD 100–200 billion in annual climate finance for emerging and developing economies by 2035. When aligned with pre-arranged finance strategies, it can transform crisis response and mobilise long-term investment for resilience.

The Resilience Effect: 10 Super Levers to Catalyse Finance in Climate-Vulnerable Countries

We are living through another year of records. A year when hurricanes, floods, droughts and landslides have destroyed lives and property all over the world; a year when prolonged drought and heat stress have fuelled food crises, conflict and migration. The ten biggest climate-related disasters in 2024 cost more than $200 billion – an annual bill which is becoming the new normal.

Bridgetown Initiative: 3.0 FINAL DRAFT

Reform of the International Development and Climate Finance Architecture 

Bridgetown Initiative: 3.0 (Consultation Draft: May 28, 2024)

Urgent and Decisive Action to Reform the International Financial Architecture

The 2022 Barbados Agenda.

Urgent and Decisive Action Required for an Unprecedented Combination of Crises
The 2022 Bridgetown Initiative for the Reform of the Global Financial Architecture

Barbados launches Investment Plan for Prosperity and Resilience at COP29 in Baku
The 2022 Barbados Agenda.

Urgent and Decisive Action Required for an Unprecedented Combination of Crises
The 2022 Bridgetown Initiative for the Reform of the Global Financial Architecture