This report captures the CIFAR Alliance's journey, insights, and impact—driving innovation at the intersection of financial resilience and climate action.

This report reveals the insights and experiences of institutions across Mexico, Brazil, Kenya, Senegal, and more, highlighting their efforts to manage climate challenges, develop climate-smart products, and enhance disaster preparedness.

This Case Study from the CARMet Co-Lab outlines how Verqor promotes climate adaptation and resilience, as well as how their metrics inform progress beyond financial returns.

This Case Study highlights how Farm to Feed enhances climate resilience for smallholder farmers in Kenya by purchasing their imperfect but edible produce that would otherwise be wasted. It measures the economic value captured, greenhouse gas emissions avoided, and nutritional value retained by rescuing this surplus food, demonstrating tangible climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits.

This report share our learnings, to ensure our efforts in climate action and financial inclusion resonate across communities worldwide. As we embrace this phase of cross-pollination, we appreciate our journey’s unique paths, learning from each achievement and challenge.

This Playbook documents CIFAR Alliance's journey into building innovation ecosystems, particularly focused on climate resilience, adaptation, and finance.

This whitepaper provides a broad look at how financial and non-financial products and services can support the resilience of vulnerable populations. In doing so, it seeks to highlight the challenges that stakeholders must address to support their climate resilience. The paper also examines where and how financial services can play a role in that journey.

This white paper explores the most effective adaptation measures that define successful initiatives and how they can be implemented in the face of ecological and physical constraints, limitations in knowledge and resources, and social dynamics.

This Case Study from the CARMet Co-Lab describes how OKO, a crop insurance provider in Mali, tracks the number of policies sold, the overall value of the crop insurance policies it sells, and the number of payouts made, as well as the resulting changes in the amount farmers invest in their farms and the increased access to credit obtained by farmers, to measure the impact of its services.

This paper by BFA Global and UNIDO, identifies 10 principles for measuring resilience and adaptation based on a review of thirty different measurement frameworks.

This blog introduces a social framework for advancing inclusive and equitable climate solutions.

This call to action surfaced the women leaders and leadership needed to catalyze and scale private sector action on climate change in Africa.

The academic paper synthesizes existing knowledge on the vulnerability of female

This study looks at women’s increased socio-economic vulnerabilities within climate shocks and focuses on their contributions and their significant influence on climate change adaptation practices.

This blog considers how integrating a climate and gender lens into financial services for rural women could help reduce the gender inequality gap and prevent them from being excluded from climate resilience initiatives.

This deck explores the personas of rural women and their distinct customer journeys through product and service engagement in the context of climate change.

This capacity-building package has been designed for policymakers to guide them on how to promote gender equality across all levels of policy and programming in climate change and to provide them with the necessary tools to do so.

This academic paper discusses six gender participatory workshops that assessed vulnerability and adaptive strategies to climate variability and change for livestock and forest-based livelihoods in Mali

This blog discusses emerging gender-smart climate finance innovations that hold promise for securing a more inclusive climate-friendly future.

This guide is for investors, fund managers, and other stakeholders to identify and prioritize gender-smart climate finance investment risks and opportunities.

This policy brief explores how mainstreaming gender within climate finance can maximize funding efforts and tackle deeply rooted structural inequities.

This blog explores how countries are using Climate Change Gender Action Plans (ccGAPs) to identify gender-specific opportunities in nationally-determined climate-related priority sectors through a participatory, multi-stakeholder process.

The report highlights the financial gap between international capital providers and gender and climate-smart agribusinesses in Africa.

This working paper illustrates how women are differently impacted by climate change and how financial services can play a better role in strengthening their autonomous adaptive capacities to climate change.

This thought leadership report seeks to accelerate and scale the climate and gender solutions being led by African women, highlighting the need for urgent action from investors and across the ecosystem

This paper assesses the current evidence on pathways between gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems.

This framework supports the formulation of action plans and guidance documents contributing to gender equality and women’s empowerment through livestock development.

We provide definitions of Gender and Climate Finance, Gender Intersectionality, Gender and Climate Smart Innovation, Gender and a Global Loss and Damage Fund, along with essential resources that provide information and guidance on integrating gender considerations into climate change policies and programs.

This white paper examines the prospects for adaptation leveraging digital technology focusing on how solutions can be financed

A landscape assessment and specific use case analysis of blockchain for climate innovation in emerging markets

This report by the CIFAR Alliance Investors Working Group highlights 11 successful ventures that are building solutions to improve the resilience of communities susceptible to climate change. The Alliance members, including Catalyst Fund, Mercy Corps Ventures, British International Investments (BII), FSD Africa, Gawa Capital, MSC, Omnivore, and IUCN, illustrate how fintech can deliver scalable climate resilience solutions.  

The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM), where individuals, institutions, and corporations buy and sell carbon credits to offset their carbon emissions, is a promising way for vulnerable communities to access critical resources.

This new Opportunity Brief from the CIFAR Alliance explores how the VCM could be harnessed as a way to provide economic incentives for climate mitigation and adaptation in Africa, and to direct a greater share of the benefits to small land stewards, small project developers and, ultimately, smallholder farmers who have been excluded from it until now.

A survey of senior management at businesses and investment funds, providing a clearer understanding of how private sector leaders in Africa and South Asia see climate change.

In this book Bill Gates presents what he learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address global warming and recommends strategies to tackle it.

A report from the GSMA on the uses of mobile technologies to foster resilience

The study, published in Nature Sustainability, highlights the global inequality in emissions between people in rich and poor countries.

This strategy guides USAID's humanitarian and development work through 2030 in a truly different way: by calling on all corners of USAID to play a part in the whole-of-Agency response.

This report focuses on making the case for climate adaptation, providing specific insights and recommendations in key sectors: food security, the natural environment, water, cities and urban areas, infrastructure, disaster risk management, and finance. It is designed to inspire action among decision-makers, including heads of state and government officials, mayors, business executives, investors, and community leaders.

Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) is an ever-growing shared knowledge base aimed to enhance climate adaptation action by:
> Providing accurate, timely, and useful information for existing and future CAKE users.
> Increasing awareness of adaptation projects, options, practitioners, and resources.
> Engaging the broader community to develop the field of adaptation.

This panel session explores how inequality can be addressed through climate resilience.

This webinar looks at how FSPs are approaching the issue of climate change with their clients. We hear from two MFIs on what they are currently doing to build climate resilience in clients, both through new financial products, such as livestock insurance, and adapting existing financial services to meet specific community needs.

BFA Global's blog spotlights the voices and perspectives of vulnerable populations by connecting their expressed experiences and worries with climate change vocabulary and narratives.

This paper discusses the role of digital climate-informed advisory services in building the resilience of small-holder producers by 2030. It puts forth key principles for good practice, an estimation of the needed investment for scaling services and preliminary ideas for targeting these investments for reaching the most vulnerable and marginalized.

CGAP’s post and report describe their take on climate change. Lots of literature links for more in-depth reviews

The blog highlights how fintech innovation can increase the agricultural sector's resiliency.

The Conversation's post describes the effects of climate change on vulnerable populations in informal settlements and how institutions can help deliver adaptation to dwellers.

Several concrete examples of startups working on fintech for resilience

See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change

This report presents the most comprehensive overview of the present and future prospects for the African continent in the light of climate change

The AAAP focuses on four action areas (pillars) that collectively address Africa’s adaptation priorities, and are shaped to fit identified niches that provide key opportunities to drive adaptation through transformative and innovative action.

The report identifies key thematic areas (one of them climate change), underpinning the vital role of good governance in achieving Africa’s economic and political transformation.

This report identifies existing and potential benefits across the agricultural supply chain and broader society. The report draws on practical examples, academic reviews, and quantitative modeling to build a comprehensive picture of the business case for regenerative agriculture.

This guide is designed to help investors include their climate action plans, or net zero transition plans, in CDP reporting, following the investor agenda’s ICAPs Expectations Ladder and Guidance.

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This discussion paper explores the importance of nature in addressing climate change and the role of finance in supporting a nature-positive and net-zero economy. This is a critical issue to ensure finance can make a meaningful and proportional contribution to supporting the Paris Agreement

This blog post identifies real customer risks in the PAYGo sector that need to be addressed

First Leadership Essay from the new CEO at CGAP

Includes encouraging growth in adaptation finance, even if it is still too low compared to mitigation finance

Wealthy countries are under pressure to make good on their commitment to mobilize US$100 billion a year to help poorer countries deal with climate change

Enduring planet aims to deliver fast debt capital to startups and small businesses that focus on climate, such as by mitigating emissions or helping humanity adapt to the disastrous effects of burning fossil fuels.

Analysis of past “impact finance” waves and the trajectories they followed so we can learn from them as we seek to accelerate the climate finance ecosystem

A list of 7 themes and patterns we’ve observed as we were getting ready to launch DF4CR

A set of investment theses in the nexus of climate and fintech

A summary of the interviews with 30+ leaders

Barriers and opportunities for the main stakeholders

Long but very complete post about mechanisms to leverage blockchain to finance and build a regenerative economy

This presentation talks about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), and how they can be used in projects.

GRP on advances in measuring resilience

This report lays out the background and purpose of the Guidance Note (GN) series, introduces core concepts, and previews the content of the Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance series.

This document sets out WWF’s views on implementing high-impact and high-quality nature-based solutions for climate mitigation from the perspective of the people and the places where they work, as a companion to WWF’s Blueprint for Corporate Action on Climate and Nature, which focuses on business- or demand-side integrity. It also discusses how funders and companies can contribute to nature-based solutions as an integral part of their broader climate strategies.

The trading of carbon credits can help companies—and the world—meet ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Here is what it would take to strengthen voluntary carbon markets so they can support climate action on a large scale.

Each chapter of the publication explains one aspect of the VCM. The chapters can be read as standalone factsheets or be read together as part of a larger summary of the VCM.

Ted Talk with James Irungu Mwangi

Voluntary carbon markets grasping the nettle of agriculture and establishing standards for soil programs.

Coalition of lawyers, journalists and campaigners challenge climate-busting mega projects exposed in Guardian investigation

Nature-based adaptation can simultaneously help meet the three great challenges of our time: responding to climate change, protecting biodiversity, and ensuring human well-being. But right now, the opportunities for delivering these synergies are still going begging.

This publication identifies key opportunities for Nature-Based Solutions initiatives to contribute to adaptation outcomes:

From the South Pole, one of the leading carbon finance brokers in the world

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This guidance identifies principles and guidelines specifically tailored to address the unique aspects of blue carbon. It also is intended to lay the groundwork for understanding key markers that can be used to evaluate the quality of projects.

The article showcases how wildfires and glacier collapses are disrupting lives around the world

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Bloomberg on the challenges tackled by the CHO in Sierra Leone’s Freetown

This brief explores the potential for distributed renewable energy (DRE) to
play an increased role in mitigating heat risk in large urban and peri-urban
settlements via its integration into passive and active cooling solutions.

These solutions assess strategies for reducing greenhouse gases related to ocean resources, food production, methane management, and materials manufacturing and use.

Investigates how the continent formed and analyzes ancient environmental changes recorded in its sediments

The gathering will outline long-term strategies to halt and reverse the rapid loss of species and habitats in Africa’s more than 8,500 protected areas, covering 14% of land and 17% of its marine area.

KCERT 2050 is designed to help policymakers, energy producers and consumers (including the public) in Kenya to understand the energy and emissions-related choices they are making, providing a platform for engaging in dialogues on the challenges and opportunities of the future energy system and the responses to climate change.

New core diagnostic reports that integrate climate change and development considerations, July 2022.