Financing DRR

An initiative by the H&M Foundation and Mercy Corps and co-funded by global financial technology platform, Adyen, is testing how early-warning systems can trigger remittances before climate disasters strike.

A new interactive dashboard brings disaggregated, country-level data together for the first time so that governments, practitioners and researchers can see not just how much financial protection exists, but how it has actually performed.

This policy note explores how Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) can support more resilient financing by embedding climate risk diagnostics and climate disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) mechanisms into national financing strategies

This special issue is about drawing lessons about recognising the importance of acting early, learning from practice, and strengthening the systems that make early action possible.

Climate finance is often seen as a technical puzzle involving better proposals, stronger justifications, more readiness support, and more capacity building. The assumption is straightforward: strengthen technical preparedness, and finance will follow.

The report documents the continued expansion of anticipatory action globally in 2025, with record activations, growing institutional embedding, and a first-ever analysis of donor funding flows, while flagging persistent gaps in financing and coordination.

This policy note builds on the practical and operational experience of the World Bank Group and World Food Programme to offer an overview of why and how strengthening the linkages between disaster risk finance (DRF) and adaptive social protection matters.

The study investigates how the largest wildfire in Sweden's recent history, the 2014 wildfire in Västmanland County, affected nearby housing prices and time-on-market.