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This theme addresses the capacity of the private sector to understand and anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, as well as contribute to building the capacity and resilience of communities to disasters. 

Resilient businesses don’t just react to crises—they anticipate risks, absorb shocks, adapt to change, and recover faster.
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Resilience projects need funding. Green banks could help them reach new investors, one researcher says

A hybrid institutional capital model could package small infrastructure resilience projects to make them attractive to institutional investors, a new research paper proposes.

Smart Cities Drive
A Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) volunteer, during an early warning drill in Chila village, Bangladesh
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Ready before the river rises: a new public-private financing model for protecting communities in Bangladesh

The government has designed what it calls a "continuum of support", a two-instrument financing package that layers government resources on top of existing humanitarian delivery systems.

Financial Protection Forum (World Bank)
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M&S invests in fridges that can cope with weather as hot as 45C

Retailer admits it struggled in June heatwave and also had to order more ice-cream to keep pace with demand.

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Handbook for Financial Institutions: Climate Adaptation Finance
To support Financial Institutions globally, GCA developed the Handbook on Climate Adaptation Finance, a practical resource designed to help them integrate climate adaptation into their strategies, operations, and financing activities.
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Facade of small business buildings in the old town district of Granada, Spain.
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Ignasi Fontanals
Small businesses are key to building resilient cities
Can cities and SMEs can access the operational resilience tools – continuity plans, crisis exercises, risk assessments and risk transfer approaches – that have traditionally been available mainly to large companies and major consultancies?
Person at the village near Viti Levu Island; Fiji
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Building resilience together: the role of the Fijian private sector in the Pacific resilience facility

Despite being a small island nation, Fiji is punching above its weight class when it comes to being proactive about mitigating the effects of climate change and investing in resilience.

Connecting Business initiative
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2010: The wide reach of cascading impacts from volcanoes

2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption showed volcanic ash can trigger global transport and supply chain disruption beyond local damage, reshaping insurance BI/CBI thinking and driving new risk modelling.

WTW
Local men are having a rest at the old building walls during the hot summer day in Medinine, central Tunisia.
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Delivering a 'double dividend' for MENAAP firms in extreme heat – World Bank report

The flagship report presents cross-country, firm-level evidence on the tangible impact rising temperatures and climate-related trade policies have on financial markets.

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