Fireside chat: Financing resilience – unlocking long-term investment for adaptation

This session focuses on how cities can secure the capital needed to strengthen infrastructure, safeguard communities and prepare for future shocks. The discussion will explore financial instruments such as resilience bonds, blended finance, insurance solutions and regional risk-pooling models. Speakers will examine how cities can quantify risk reduction, communicate long-term value and build investment cases that resonate with both public and private funders.

Key talking points:

• How cities can structure resilience bonds, insurance mechanisms and risk-pooling arrangements
• Methods for quantifying avoided losses and demonstrating the economic value of adaptation
• Financing pathways for both large-scale infrastructure upgrades and community-level resilience projects
• Building partnerships with investors, insurers and development finance institutions to scale adaptation