Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy – A Common Language for Financing Climate Resilience
Eversheds Sutherland, 1 Wood St, London EC2V 7WS
About this Event
One of the most pressing challenges of our time is the scale of finance required to achieve effective climate adaptation. According to UNEP’s latest Adaptation Gap Report, developing countries will need between USD $187–359 billion annually to meet their adaptation needs. In stark contrast, international public finance flows for adaptation in 2022 were estimated at just USD $28 billion. While the adaptation gap is vast, it also represents a powerful opportunity for the scaling-up of private sector investment in adaptation and resilience (A&R) investments.
The sustainable debt market is uniquely positioned to help bridge this divide. To date, more than USD $5 trillion has been raised through green, social, and sustainability-linked bonds (GSS+), making these instruments central to climate finance. However, only a small fraction of these funds currently target climate resilience. A key barrier has been the lack of clear, consistent definitions and criteria for identifying credible A&R investments, leading to uncertainty among investors, issuers, and regulators, and ultimately constraining capital flows.
To address this, Climate Bonds Initiative, in partnership with lead technical partner Cadlas, has developed the Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT). The CBRT provides a comprehensive and credible framework for defining, assessing, and scaling up finance for climate resilience. It offers much-needed clarity to investors and market participants, enabling them to identify impactful A&R opportunities across sectors and geographies.
It builds on Climate Bonds’ track record in taxonomy development and focuses on the comparatively underfunded but increasingly critical area of climate resilience. Structured around seven Climate Resilience Themes, the CBRT provides clear, consistent, and practical guidance for a broad range of investment types – from projects that integrate specific resilience measures to economic activities that deliver systemic adaptation outcomes. It equips capital markets with a shared language and robust criteria for credible resilience investments.
Join Climate Bonds Initiative and Cadlas at London Climate Action Week 2025, where we’ll explore how the CBRT can help mobilise finance for resilience. This insightful session will feature expert panellists from across the financial sector.
Please note, that this event is invite-only.
Climate Bonds Initiative & Cadlas
Climate Bonds Initiative:
Climate Bonds Initiative is an international not-for-profit organisation working to mobilise global capital for climate action. Climate Bonds has played a central role in transforming the green bond market from a niche concept to a mainstream source of capital for sustainable development, driving quality of issuance through the development of science-based green definitions in line with the Paris Agreement.
Cadlas:
Cadlas is a technical advisory firm specialising in climate resilience finance. We work globally with clients and partners across the financial sector, including investors, commercial banks, development finance institutions, multilateral development banks, and policymakers. Drawing on deep experience in both public and private sectors, we support innovative and inclusive approaches to unlocking capital for climate resilience.
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