The Resilient Prosperity Forum emerges from the Principles for Reinventing Prosperity and from multistakeholder insight-sharing processes like the Earth Diplomacy Leadership Initiative, the Good Food Finance Network, and the Climate Action and Food Systems Alliance. The Forum will connect these coalitions in an ongoing series of virtual, hybrid, and in-person meetings, to accelerate insight-sharing about climate-related risk reduction and resilience building, to improve outcomes in local context.

To detail the Forum’s landscape of action, we start from the foundational insights shared as the conclusion of the 2025 Reinventing Prosperity Report:

Designing to transcend crisis is not only about creative engineering and science insights; it is about ensuring people and communities have adaptive capacity and livelihoods that do not depend on destructive practices. We can achieve the best possible future for humankind, but only if we make sure we are structuring large-scale systems, along with their intended and actual local impacts, and the core imperatives of the everyday economy, to push drivers of crisis to the margins and center the rights, dignity, imagination, and cooperative capacity of human beings.

Decent work and dignified inclusive processes are the foundational design elements for a livable future. Give more people greater agency, in real terms, with everyday benefits to health and wellbeing, and we can achieve a world free from deprivation, conflict, and chaos.

Areas of innovation 

• Valuing Resilience – Resilience is a high-value area of urgently needed investment, providing a return of $15 for every $1 invested. Up-front costs for more resilient structures, technologies, and services, mean we need coordinated life-cycle valuation strategies to support better banking and finance, in terms of climate risk and outcomes.
• Fiscal Efficiency Gains – Countries can create fiscal space by aligning budgets with climate goals, to maximize sustainable investment value. Fiscal space also needs to start with expanding revenues through more effective public investment and collection. Debt arrangements need to be responsive to climate vulnerability and impacts, so debt payments can be temporarily suspended while actions to respond to crisis or build resilience against future shocks are underway.
• Locally Rooted Development – Local communities and other stakeholders need to be heard in the policy process. Without input from those who will live with a given policy or investment, inefficiencies creep in, even when the overall approach is well-designed. New business models that create enhanced adaptive capacity, while reducing risk and increasing agency of local actors, help to create investable locally rooted resilience economies.
• Infrastructure – Infrastructure is the physical conditioning of our environment and experience. It can include roads and bridges, sewage systems and parks, ecological buffer zones, such as wetlands or mangroves, that help to protect human society against shock events. It is also the informational systems that keep us aware, informed, and able to adapt to changing circumstances.

Linked initiatives

• Climate Action and Food Systems Alliance
• Earth Diplomacy Leadership Initiative
• Good Food Finance Network
• Networked Earth Systems Science Initiative

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Examples of Leadership

The Climate Value Exchange is committed to the promise of economy-wide multilateral climate cooperation, in line with Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement. Below, we share a short list of potential and emerging non-market approaches to international cooperation to advance climate-resilient development. 

A Climate Banking Partnership – In this example, 30 countries, including all eurozone countries and 10 or more climate vulnerable countries, agree to align banking industry standards to enhance the climate resilience of front-line communities across the 30 countries, to significantly reduce costs of climate shocks to coastal regions and food growing regions, and to provide measurable and specially funded guarantees to keep the trade in goods and services for basic needs moving, even amid extreme events or times of ongoing crisis. The banking sector improves its accounting standards to clearly show the difference in long-term development value for destructive/polluting activities as compared to sustainability-focused or resilience-building activities, unlocking major new flows of finance that attract more countries to join. (More information)

A Climate Income Cooperative – A hypothetical climate income cooperative could include (for example) 10 nations—8 low and middle income countries (LMIC) in one region, plus two high-income countries—agree to establish national carbon pricing plans, using a climate income system, in which revenues are assessed on the carbon emissions potential of extracted fuel stock (coal, oil, or gas) and revenues are returned to households and vulnerable communities. Border adjustments are put in place for non-compliant nations, but waived for the 10 members of the cooperative. The two wealthy country partners provide targeted conditional finance, vulnerability-responsive debt relief, and other measures to support cooperative expansion of overall climate-resilient development.

Co-Investment Platform for Food Systems Transformation – This first-of-its-kind Co-Investment Platform aims to fill critical gaps in the global realignment of finance into food systems. This global good food finance facility will crowd in finance from public, private, multilateral, and philanthropic sources. A first group of countries is moving to build capacity to mobilize new flows of climate-aligned food finance, even in the currently ongoing design phase. The Platform will support accelerated mobilization with: Managed funds; Instrumentation and strategic alignment; Facilitated investment partnerships; Mutual accountability systems, including multidimensional metrics.

A Green Nutrition Security Pact – In this example, one large high-income food importer establishes a food and agriculture-focused trade agreement with 5 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) that export food, from their neighboring region. One goal for the wealthy country partner is to expand flows of healthy, sustainably produced food (green, blue, and/or pink-labeled), to improve health and environmental sustainability for its population. The Pact includes provisions to diversify and expand rural community economies in the LMIC, and to provide similar environment, health and wellbeing benefits to people in those countries. Enabling policies, including transparency incentives, investment in relevant data systems and services, and climate resilience measures, are implemented in a cooperative fashion to ensure coherence across the participating countries.

Earth Science Data-Sharing Consortium – It is increasingly clear that decision-makers at all levels need reliable, multidimensional data and metrics, to inform critical choices and develop best-case strategies for response to and overcoming of climate disruption challenges. Not all countries are comfortable opening up the flow of information about sensitive ground-level details of their official operations, or allowing others to overfly their territory, so data-sharing from science platforms can best accelerate and produce end-user tools if a group of nations and institutions work together to facilitate the needed information flows, to provide consistent evidence for early warning, disaster response, and best-case climate-resilient development. (Learn about the Networked Earth Systems Science Initiative.)

Ocean-Smart Industries Trade Area – The ocean comprises the vast majority of both the climate system and the biosphere. Carbon-based life and healthy ocean ecosystems help to prevent heat-trapping carbon compounds from accumulating in the atmosphere and causing out of control global heating. Any waste from human activities on land makes its way through watersheds down to the ocean. To protect the global ocean and give ourselves a foundation for climate-resilient development, we need all industries to move toward practices that avoid harmful pollution and ocean breakdown. A group of countries could advance this standard, with clear benefits for economic, environmental, and fiscal health and stability, by agreeing to advance new practices that reduce pollution and related impacts from summit to seabed.

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In 2026, the Resilient Prosperity Forum will host a series of multistakeholder discussions, connecting leaders and stakeholders, to examine themes ranging from vulnerability and risk reduction to climate banking innovation, access to information and the effects of artificial intelligence technologies on economies and societies, and cooperative strategies for climate-resilient development. 

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