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Financing DRR

Τhis theme covers economic analysis supporting risk-informed investments, better investment planning and financing strategies for disaster risk reduction, cost-benefit analysis and other DRR investment appraisal techniques, and ex-ante/ex-post financing.

This theme at the moment also addresses post-event economic loss and impact assessments.

When Guatemala analysed how public money was spent on disaster risk and climate action, a clear picture emerged: prevention was underfunded — and opportunity was being missed.

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The truncated toolkit: disaster risk finance and the limits of autonomy in the Dutch Caribbean

This working paper examines how Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten finance disaster recovery and why they make limited use of modern disaster risk financing instruments despite their high exposure to natural hazards.

Cornerstone economic research
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Access to disaster risk financing for frontline local actors

This report shows how disaster risk financing reaches – or fails to reach – frontline actors, and identifies practical ways to close the gaps that keep timely, adequate, locally led financing out of reach.

Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR)
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Managing disaster-related fiscal risks in a shock-prone world: Insights from the Cat DDO (Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option) experience

This evaluation addresses gaps related to the catastrophe deferred drawdown option (Cat DDO). espite its growing adoption, empirical evidence on the Cat DDO’s effectiveness remains limited, particularly regarding its role in post-disaster financing.

World Bank, the
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Extreme weather resilience: why it matters and how we’re building it

This paper examines why extreme weather resilience is becoming a core priority for infrastructure investors and how it should be built into investment decisions.

Actis
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Calculating the costs of wetland loss

Wetlands protect communities and ecosystems from flooding. A study quantifies their financial importance.

Eos - AGU
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The credit channel of acute vs chronic climate change-related risk

This working paper (No. 1048) investigates how banks adjust credit supply in response to temperature-related climate risk, using a firm-bank level panel of French single-establishment micro and SME firms from 2010 to 20

Banque de France
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Early warning systems and anticipatory action: the fiscal case for pre-disaster financing

The guide, previously published in 2023, expanded its coverage to include an analysis of anticipatory action and early warning systems and the fiscal case for pre-disaster financing.

Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP)
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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
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