Latest report · № 2026-02 · 10 September 2026
Scaling Climate Adaptation Through Development Finance and Technology Diffusion
The resilience gap is usually described as a shortage of money. It is better understood as two gaps wearing one name — hard adaptation blocked at a capital gate, soft adaptation blocked at a delivery gate — and neither closes while both are treated as the first.
- 12–14×Assessed adaptation need runs ahead of adaptation finance — and diverging
- >10:1Return across 320 real adaptation investments; over half non-contingent
- 87% → 8%Countries with a plan, against finance as a share of assessed need
- 300,000 → 26Bangladesh cyclone deaths, 1970 to 2020, on concrete and volunteers