Climate Resilience Investment
GARI works closely with organizations across the globe to increase understanding of resilience investment and motivate action. Check here for case studies, research and white papers.
MARKET SIZInG
Sizing the Inevitable Investment Opportunity: Climate Adaptation
May 2025 - GIC releases study on the size of market for resilience investments. "The investment opportunity across public and private debt and equity is expected to rise from US$2tn to US$9tn by 2050,including US$3tn in incremental growth attributable to global warming." according to the study. Read here.
The Private Equity Opportunity in Climate Adaptation and Resilience
May 2025 - BCG, Temasek and Ecosperity study shows that climate A&R companies tend towards early stage pure-play companies or large diversified players, and projects growth, market segmentation and investment trends for six investable subsectors. Read here.
Investing in the green economy 2025
May 2025 - The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) released a report that identified over 2,100 companies generating over $1 trillion in revenues from products and services that contribute to climate adaptation - 1/5 of the global green economy in 2024. Read here.
Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2024
Global Landscape of Climate Finance, 2024 from the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) provides an update on trends around the world on climate-related investment.
Corporate filings reveal U.S. companies working on climate solutions
November 2024 - The Institute for Business in Global Society at Harvard Business School identified 879 companies that include 88 different types climate solutions in their 10-K filings. These companies represent about $8 trillion in market capitalization, or roughly 20% of all U.S. market capitalization. Learn more here.
Climate resilience: an emerging investment theme
December 2023 - BlackRock, through its Investment Institute, released the report “Mega Forces – Climate resilience: an emerging investment theme” in December 2023. The report is subtitled Moving beyond risk assessments to climate resilience as an investment theme . Read here.
Role of Insurance in ClIMATE RESILIENCE INVESTMENTs
Identify and Manage Climate Risks, and Tackle Climate Reporting
2025 - Zurich Insurance focuses on "the $3.1 Trillion Business Challenge" the company sees with climate risk and provides data-driven insights and actionable recommendations for adapting physical assets and operations to the changing climate. Read here.
Mobilizing Insurance Investment in Sustainable Infrastructure
Mobilizing Insurance Investment in Sustainable Infrastructure: Role of the United Nation reports on mobilizing insurance investment in sustainable infrastructure (Lauren Carter, 2020)
CAse studies
Success Stories and Strategies for Achieving Climate Adaptation and Resilience
In 2024 the World Bank released its flagship report on resilience investment, “Rising to the Challenge: Success Stories and Strategies for Achieving Climate Adaptation and Resilience". The report highlights the growing success of private sector investment in resilience, with 30 examples of private actions and 9 public-sector action or reforms that have a positive impact on resilience and can be replicated and scaled up.
Other Resources & History
Building Sustainable Futures: Advancing Climate Resilience in South Asia
In 2024 the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), in partnership with The World Bank, released Building Sustainable Futures: Advancing Climate Resilience in South Asia, which delves into the critical challenges facing climate resilience across South Asia.
A benchmark analysis of frameworks for measuring climate resilience and adaptation (2023)
Produced by the CIFAR Alliance, UNIDO and BFA Global to unveil key patterns that can redefine investors' approach to climate-conscious investments.This report can help transform the investment journey and create portfolios that not only yield returns but also contribute to a sustainable future. Consider this report your compass, aligning your investments with climate resilience and adaptation goals. Read here.
From Risk to Reward (2023)
From Risk to Reward: The Business Imperative to Finance Climate Adaptation and Resilience released in December 2023 is a study published by BCG in collaboration with the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that lays out the investment thesis for the private sector to finance climate adaptation and resilience.
Adaptation Gap Report 2021
The Gathering Storm: Adapting to climate change in a post-pandemic world from the UN Environment Programme looks at how the world is adapting to intensifying impacts.
Enabling Private Investments in Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Enabling Private Investment in Climate Adaptation & Resilience: Current Status: Barriers to Investment and Blueprint for Action from the World Bank Group and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) in 2021 includes case studies for investors.
Addressing Physical Climate Risk in Infrastructure Investment
Addressing Physical Climate Risks in Infrastructure Investment from the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investors (CCRI) in 2021 explores the market failure of overlooking climate risk in infrastructure investments.