The Investors Resilience Challenge is a collaborative initiative developed to help overcome barriers that currently limit the scale of adaptation and resilience (A&R) finance. The challenge provides a common approach: a flexible set of criteria that aim to make it easier for DFIs and private investors to work together, for private sector co-investors and investees to engage on deals with greater clarity, and ultimately to mobilize more private capital into A&R.

Developed through the Adaptation and Resilience Investors Collaborative (ARIC), an international partnership of DFIs, it is modelled on the 2X Challenge. Existing frameworks and taxonomies are often complex or inconsistent, making it harder to identify credible A&R investments and mobilize private capital at speed and scale. 

The challenge aims to mobilise more private capital for A&R through two paths:

  • Increasing the resilience of assets, companies, and portfolios (‘Resilience of investments’) by investing in, advising, or influencing the resilience of an investment or asset thereby managing and reducing vulnerability to physical climate risks, addressing the risk side of A&R.
  • Investing more in assets, companies and portfolios (‘Resilience through investments’) that deliver A&R benefits to communities, customers and systems, capturing the opportunity side of A&R.

DFIs and investors are invited to join the Resilience Challenge, now open for consultation.

 

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The challenge is now open for consultation, and ARIC invites interested parties to share their feedback on the challenge below. 
  
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What makes an investment Resilience Challenge aligned?

An investment needs to meet at least two of the five ARIC Resilience Framework criteria in order to be aligned with the Resilience Challenge:

  • Managing physical climate change risk: Investing in, advising on, or influencing the resilience of an investment or asset based on findings of a Physical Climate Risk Assessment (PCRA)
  • Measuring climate risk management outcomes: Incorporate a metric relating to the resilience of an investment or asset.
  • Adaptation enabling activities: Financing investments that deliver resilience through the production, distribution, or sale of A&R solutions, in line with a recognized taxonomy
  • Measuring adaptation enabling outcomes: Incorporate an impact or results metric relating to resilience through investments
  • Mobilizing private investment: Demonstrate mobilization of private capital toward A&R outcomes