Unlocking the Triple Dividend for Resilient Growth
R201 Main Building, SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
About this Event
The limited financing and insufficient prioritisation of adaptation and resilience-building are increasingly leaving communities unprepared for escalating climate risks. Resilience investments are often undervalued because their full range of benefits – including avoided losses, induced economic benefits, and wider social and environmental gains – are neither well understood nor clearly demonstrated. A recent analysis of 320 adaptation investments from around the world shows how they are high-impact, high-return investments that pay off even when climate disasters don’t strike.
This workshop will explore how integrating the triple dividend of resilience (TDR) framework can support more effective and economically sound adaptation investments and drive a resilient growth narrative. Participants will gain practical insights into the cost of inaction and the real value of adaptation, including the varied and often unquantified benefits of adaptation. Examples will draw from the UK as well as from developing countries. After sectoral and thematic breakout sessions, the workshop will conclude with actionable ways to scale up resilience across sectors and geographies.
The workshop is convened by the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and the World Resources Institute (WRI).
Attendance is available in-person and online. Please register for your free ticket or contact Harald Heubaum at hh15@soas.ac.uk to find out more.
SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance/ Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs/ World Resources Institute
The SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance aims to advance the transition to an equitable, low-carbon economy by providing a forum for interdisciplinary research and teaching on sustainable finance and investment. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the entire United Kingdom. The World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent global research organisation that works to improve people’s lives, protect and restore nature, and stabilise the climate.
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