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Adaptation Finance Emerges as Climate Risk’s Missing Market
As physical climate risks intensify, senior finance leaders are confronting a hard truth: decarbonization alone will not protect balance sheets. A senior executive in climate risk analytics argues that adaptation finance is rapidly becoming essential to safeguarding assets, stabilizing credit risk, and unlocking resilient growth in an era of unavoidable climate disruption.
Jan 21, 2026
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ESG and Climate Risk
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- Less than one percent
of sustainable finance has gone to adaptation and resilience
- Physical climate
impacts are already affecting credit risk asset values and earnings
- Adaptation finance
can reduce risk and create commercial value across banking insurance and
real assets
- Data driven insight
is critical to scaling resilience financing
- Insurance alone is no
longer sufficient as coverage retreats from high risk regions
- Early movers embedding adaptation are positioning ahead of regulatory and market shifts
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· Climate finance has focused on decarbonization while underfunding physical climate risk
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