The Resilience Opportunity: Unlocking Climate Resilience through Public-Private Collaboration (2025)
This report outlines how governments, investors, businesses, and communities can work together to turn resilience needs into investable opportunities. It also presents six archetypes for private-sector involvement in climate resilience collaborations to clarify the business value and provide pathways for action.[1]
This methodology is a science-based classification and screening system for climate-resilience investments. It tells issuers, investors, policymakers, and market observers what counts as a credible resilience investment and how to check it across seven themes, including infrastructure.[2]
This guidance defines five principles for donors and other finance providers on how to best use blended finance to scale up finance, crowd in private capital, and partner effectively.[3]
Guide for Adaptation and Resilience Finance (2024)
This guide establishes a classification and taxonomy of adaptation and resilience (A&R) activities and provides principles and best practices to integrate resilience into financial decision-making. It also lays out a high-level action plan for the finance sector, including developing internal expertise on adaptation finance, identifying pipeline projects, and partnering with governments to structure deals.[4]
Report on approaches for financing and investment in climate-resilient infrastructure
This report provides guidance on mainstreaming climate resilience into infrastructure finance. It also discusses how to mobilise additional finance for resilient infrastructure.[5]
Guidance UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Building Capacity to Manage Risks and Enhance Resilience: A Guidebook for Ports
This guidebook presents a step-by-step approach to resilience building in the maritime supply-chain. It sets out risk identification and assessment, as well as what the resilience building process for ports could look like.[6]
Port Decision Makers’ Guide to Climate Risk Assessments
This practical port-specific tool for commissioning and using climate risk assessments is the best “start here” tool for ports because it translates climate-risk evidence into feasibility, project preparation, investment planning, and financeable adaptation actions.[8]
Guidance United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure
This guideline provides ten principles covering the whole life cycle of infrastructure projects. It serves as a reference for governments to align national infrastructure pipelines with sustainability and resilience goals.[9]
This methodology scores and benchmarks resilience in projects and portfolios, thereby linking resilience outcomes directly to investor due diligence requirements. It provides a common language for multilateral development banks (MDBs) and financiers on climate resilience.[10]