Unlocking the triple dividend for resilient growth

Join us during London Climate Action Week for a workshop exploring more effective and economically sound adaptation investments as part of a resilient growth narrative.

Convened jointly by the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and the World Resources Institute (WRI), the workshop will address ways to tackle the limited financing and insufficient prioritisation of adaptation and resilience-building which 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.

The 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.

Coordinators

• Harald Heubaum, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS
• Ashley Diggins, Head of Adaptation Economics at Defra
• Carter Brandon, Senior Fellow at WRI

Heade image credit: Alexey Marchenko via Unsplash.