Resources
Not everything written about resilience matters to public finance. We curate the research, market developments, and expert perspectives that help governments, insurers, investors, and practitioners better understand how resilience becomes investable.
Making Resilience & Public Finance Function
State and local governments are quietly re-emerging as the most consequential actors in addressing the growing gap between risk and investment in communities across the United States
Rethinking our Assumptions and Financing Tools for Community Resilience in the Face of Growing Climate Loss and Risk
Traditional grants and municipal finance alone cannot meet the scale of today's resilience challenge. This Brookings report explores how state and local governments can unlock new investment by rethinking how risk, value, and public finance work together to build stronger, more resilient communities.
A Missing Ground: Why Municipal Bonds Have Struggled to Finance Climate Resilience at Scale
For years, resilience finance has oscillated between highly customized pilot projects and broad “green” bond programs that struggle to demonstrate measurable impact. The path to scale lies between those extremes by adapting proven municipal finance tools to value and finance risk reduction.
