Category: Activating Resilience
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No to reckless destruction, yes to cooperative stewardship
When we talk about the health and wellbeing of our planet, we are talking about our planet’s ability to provide conditions for our health and wellbeing. Earth is under unprecedented stress from unsustainable industrial activities, which overconsume nonrenewable resources and…
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Information Integrity is an Economic and Security Imperative
There is a reason all moral and religious traditions treat lying as an offense, even a sin which warrants divine punishment. Providing people with false information has real impacts on their ability to navigate the world. Falsehoods can break trust,…
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Transcending Crisis: Invest to improve lives & livelihoods
The 2025 Reinventing Prosperity Report The Principles for Reinventing Prosperity were established in 2020, through a consultative process focused on the adverse conditions facing people in communities across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. The six principles focus on foundational…
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Design systems to transcend emerging & ongoing crises
A preview of the 2025 Reinventing Prosperity Report For the 2025 Reinventing Prosperity report, we are focusing on the principle Design to transcend crisis. The implication is that we need to consider not only how to emerge from shock events for the moment,…
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Banks could be drivers of climate-resilient prosperity
In mid-year climate talks between 197 nations this past week in Bonn, Germany, there have been calls from both wealthy and developing countries for clear, agreed guidance to support mainstream banks, large and small, in starting to act as climate banks. This…
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Now is the time to seize the climate opportunity
May 2025 Climate Value Exchange actionable insights brief In May 2025, the global climate disruption challenge is intensifying. The most significant features of this critical moment are: It is increasingly clear that the right to a clean, healthy environment will…
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Levers of Acceleration for Finance in Common
2024 was the hottest year on record. In fact, it was far hotter than expected, and new evidence suggests the reason is relatively simple: global heating has been advancing faster than reported, and was concealed by non-carbon pollution that needed to be…
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Localizing Financial Innovation—A Capital to Communities Update
Two and a half years after we released the Capital to Communities report, we see the access of local communities to capital that supports climate risk reduction and resilience building threatened, around the world. We also see increased interest in “localization”,…
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Banking on Climate Value Insights & Actions
The shift toward a climate-smart banking system will be a learning-by-doing process. It needs to happen everywhere, at every scale, starting now. Climate disruption is advancing around the world, causing practical challenges, rising costs, and economic fallout. US financial regulators…
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Beyond the Horizon: Priorities for a Livable Future
The 2024 Reinventing Prosperity Report – a contribution from the Climate Value Exchange and partners to the United Nations Summit of the Future When the COVID pandemic shut down societies around the world in early 2020, it became clear we needed…