Climate Resilience

Smart development builds communities’ resilience to climate change and helps companies operate more efficiently and competitively. Smart, climate-resilient investments protect people, livelihoods, and economies from shocks that can trigger unemployment, displacement, and migration. They also strengthen private sector clients’ assets, supply chains, and portfolios— reducing losses and operational disruptions while promoting sustainable growth.

IFC works towards expanding bankable opportunities and invest in early stage solutions that help municipalities, state-owned enterprises, and private sector clients safeguard assets from climate shocks, invests in climate adaptation and resilience solutions, and make people, economies and nature more climate-resilient. In fiscal year 2025, IFC adaptation investments reach committed $558 million with $3.7 billion total capital mobilized.

IFC’s adaptation efforts focus on the following strategies:

• Advancing investments to mobilize adaptation finance across key sectors, including water, agribusiness, and financial institutions, addressing both climate-proofing needs and delivering climate adaptation solutions.
• Pioneering financial instruments, standards, and tools to drive private sector investment and entrepreneurship in climate adaptation and resilience.
• Helping clients to identify, assess, and manage climate-related physical risks to which they are vulnerable, and helping them manage the impacts on their operations, their finances, and their communities.
• Offering climate advisory services to clients to help them manage physical climate risks across their assets, operations, and portfolios, and developing solutions that support adaptation and resilience goals through analytics, capacity building, pre-investment, and investment support.