Resilient Planet Finance Lab @UniofOxford

🌍 OUR NEW REPORT IS PUBLISHED! 📢 Investment in #adaptation and #economicgrowth have long been seen as trade-offs—but the evidence is clear that adaptation is not only cost-effective but essential for long-term prosperity, wellbeing, and economic security. Our latest report, "Enabling Adaptation", produced in partnership with UN Environment Programme, provides new insights into how fiscal policies can drive resilience while ensuring economic sustainability. Key findings include: ✅ Investing in resilience is cost-effective – adding resilience to infrastructure costs just 3% more but yields a $4.2 trillion net benefit. ✅ Public finance must work smarter – aligning fiscal policies with adaptation reduces inefficiencies and supports long-term economic stability. ✅ Private investment needs to be mobilised – leveraging blended finance and sovereign instruments like adaptation-linked bonds can unlock critical funding. ✅ Data is key – investing in climate and risk data as a public good will drive better decision-making and resilient development. 📥 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/ehc3x6Yx 🚀 Join us tomorrow, 30 January 2025, for a special webinar with UN Environment Programme and Global Finance and Economy Group at Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford as we discuss these findings and launch the report officially. 💬 Register for the webinar: https://lnkd.in/egU7vwa7

SPEAKER LINEUP ANNOUNCED: Join us for the launch of the UN Environment Programme and University of Oxford joint report, 'Enabling Adaptation: Sustainable Fiscal Policies for Climate Resilient Development and Infrastructure'. This webinar will unpack key insights from the report, exploring how innovative fiscal policies can drive climate resilience, reduce economic risks, and mobilise private investment. KEYNOTE REMARKS: Sam Koojo SPEAKERS: Dr Nicola Ranger Mark Bernhofen Mathias Weidinger Dirk Heine Joaquim L R Ferreira Leite Mattias Söderberg Himanshu Sharma 30 January, 14:00 - 15:00 GMT Online. Register here: https://lnkd.in/egU7vwa7 #ClimateAction #Adapation #FiscalPolicies #ClimateResilience Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment - University of Oxford The World Bank NDC Partnership Folkekirkens Nødhjælp (DanChurchAid)

UPCOMING WEBINAR: Join us for the launch of the UN Environment Programme and University of Oxford joint report, 'Enabling Adaptation: Sustainable Fiscal Policies for Climate Resilient Development and Infrastructure'. This webinar will unpack key insights from the report, exploring how innovative fiscal policies can drive climate resilience, reduce economic risks, and mobilise private investment. The event will feature presentations from the authors and speakers representing the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, NDC Partnership, The World Bank Group, and other organisations. 30 January, 14:00 - 15:00 GMT Online. Registere here: https://lnkd.in/egU7vwa7 #ClimateAction #Adapation #FiscalPolicies #ClimateResilience Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment - University of Oxford Dr Nicola Ranger Mathias Weidinger Himanshu Sharma Mark Bernhofen

The Role of Natural Capital in the Green Economy: read the written evidence submitted by Dr Nicola Ranger and Dr Jimena Alvarez to the Environmental Audit Committee.

Yesterday, we were delighted to host Idah P., The World Bank Country Director for Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Mozambique, for a lecture and panel discussion at Oxford Martin School as part of the #SystemicResilience Initiative. The lecture focused on preparedness for shocks in the region, the implementation of the REPAIR Programme, and the role of data in shaping better-informed policies. The panel discussion, featuring Christopher Adam and Dr Nicola Ranger, explored the specific challenges facing the region and how The World Bank can enhance countries' financial and operational preparedness for climate shocks. Watch the lecture replay: https://lnkd.in/eEFfQHxU Learn more about the Systemic Resilience Initiative: https://lnkd.in/eEs7i_kC Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Oxford Department of International Development

Insightful and thought-provoking exchange between #AfOx students and Idah P. on #leadership, #environment, and disaster risk finance as part of Idah's visit to Oxford, co-organised by The World Bank and Global Finance and Economy Group at Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford. Huge thanks to our colleagues Caroline Cerruti, CFA, Evie Calcutt, Luis Alton. Special thanks Dr Nicola Ranger, Christopher Adam, Andrey Levitskiy and Anne Makena, Phd. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

Join us in person or online next Monday, 2 December, for a discussion with the World Bank Country Director, Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough, and panel speakers on the role of finance in adapting to climate change in the Indian Ocean and Southern Africa.

#NatureFinance@Oxford Seminar Series continues in-person and online on 26 November. Dr Florian Egli (Technical University of Munich) will be speaking on Derisking Biodiversity Investments: Lessons from the Energy Transition. International negotiations emphasise the importance of private capital in supporting the protection and restoration of biodiversity and natural ecosystems. However, there is limited understanding of the conditions under which private capital can effectively address these critical issues. In other transitions, derisking has proven to be a valuable policy tool for enabling investment in socially desirable initiatives. This talk will analyse biodiversity finance deals and propose a framework to assess whether derisking could be a viable strategy to mobilise finance for biodiversity. Date: 26 November 2024, 10-11am GMT Register for online participation here: https://lnkd.in/eZYeTxUV Seminar convenors: Dr Nicola Ranger and Sophus zu Ermgassen School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery Nature-Based Solutions Initiative Department of Biology, University of Oxford

The South-West Indian Ocean region is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change, facing high tropical cyclones, floods, and drought risks. Join Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough, The World Bank Country Director for Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros and Seychelles, for a discussion on how to support these countries in preparing for and responding to disasters and adapting to a changing climate in the medium and long term. The panel speakers include Christopher Adam, Professor of Development Economics at the Oxford Department of International Development, and Dr Nicola Ranger, Director Resilient Planet Finance Lab @UniofOxford and Global Finance and Economy group at Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford. Date: 2 December 2024, 11:30-12:30 Venue: Oxford Martin School Register for in-person attendance: https://lnkd.in/eKtiqmb9 Watch livestream on: https://lnkd.in/eXUzpjhB School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Africa Oxford Initiative Resilient Planet Finance Lab @UniofOxford

Extremely excited to announce the start of a new important nature finance research programme led by myself & Dr Nicola Ranger, bringing together Department of Biology, University of Oxford's Nature-positive Hub & Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford's Resilient Planet Finance Lab @UniofOxford. We're teaming up to deliver a one-year research Sprint through the #AgileInitiative at Oxford Martin School called "How can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework?" - in partnership with Defra, Green Finance Institute & Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership. To achieve the goals of the Post-2020 framework, every country in the world is gonna have to a) scale up investment in nature conservation & recovery; & b) reduce the nature degradation financed by their financial sectors. Our Sprint aims to bring together these two challenges, & basically ask how can the UK scale up 'Financing Green', and what levers can we pull to 'Green Finance', & how can we get these portfolios of actions working together. On the Financing Green side, our awesome team Sarah Gall Isobel Hawkins & friends from The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery will be creating models to simulate the different environmental markets in Oxfordshire all working at the same time, scenarios for how to scale them up, & develop an understanding of how we can build systems of different forms of finance that get the right money into the right types of conservation (i.e. minimising competition within different forms of finance, & identifying what kinds of nature remain unaddressed) to achieve overarching nature recovery goals. On the Greening Finance side, our awesome team Dr Jimena Alvarez Juan Sabuco Emma O'Donnell will be estimating the exported biodiversity impacts of the UK banking system, identifying leverage points for intervention to reduce these impacts. Then we're gonna bring this all together & explore how to get greening finance and financing green working together to achieve our overarching nature funding and nature recovery goals, in line with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. We'll also be developing blueprints about what other countries - especially fiscally-constrained hyperdiverse countries - can learn from this. It's gonna be a ride, it's pretty exciting. And a ridiculous privilege to be working alongside these astonishingly talented people.