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It introduces interim criteria that bypass draft technical screening criteria until they are validated by Technical Working Groups. To be certifiable, investments must demonstrate a substantial contribution to climate resilience, manage maladaptation risks, and do no significant harm to climate mitigation objectives. The framework distinguishes between different investment types—Adapted Activities, Adapting Measures, Enabling Activities, and Enabling Measures—with specific evidence requirements for each, particularly regarding investment-level assessments and the use of science-based climate projections.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000701#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Investments listed in the Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT) are eligible for certification if they meet three core requirements: they must make a \"Substantial Contribution to climate resilience\", ensure \"associated maladaptation risks have been identified and managed\", and not \"cause significant harm to climate mitigation objectives\".","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000701#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document provides interim criteria for CBRT investments to \"bypass the draft technical screening criteria (TSC) in the CBRT\" while they await validation by Technical Working Groups (TWGs). These interim rules will be replaced by validated criteria and \"investment-specific proxies\" to streamline the certification process.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000701#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"For investments to be certified, they must undergo an investment-level assessment. For adapting measures, the focus is on the specific activity; for all other investment types, boundaries must cover the \"wider system (i.e. value-chain, sector, market, ecosystem, region or country)\". These assessments must use science-based projections, including \"SSP5-8.5 at a minimum and SSP2- 4.5 if available\".","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000701#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The framework distinguishes between different investment types regarding eligible costs: for \"Enabling Activities, the entire cost of the activity is eligible for resilience financing\", whereas for Adapting/Enabling Measures and Adapted Activities, only \"costs directly associated with specific resilience measures are eligible\".","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000701#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To satisfy the 'Do No Significant Harm' (DNSH) requirement to mitigation, investments must either meet existing sector-specific criteria from sources like the \"EU Taxonomy\" or prove they are not involved in fossil fuel power generation or supply and avoid \"fossil fuel lock-in\".","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000701#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Maladaptation risk management requires the identification of uncertainties in climate projections and the description of \"remedial actions to be taken\" if those projections misrepresent actual climate conditions over the asset's lifespan.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000701#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Investments not listed verbatim in the CBRT can still be certified if they \"closely match\" a listed investment by belonging to the same Theme/Sector/Subsector, addressing the same Climate Hazard Consequence, sharing the same Investment Type, and having an equivalent Output Level Substantial Contribution to Resilience.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000701#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate resilience","climate change adaptation","climate finance","climate bond","maladaptation"],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["certification criteria","technical guidance"]},{"id":"clibonds-000703","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/clibonds-000703","title":"Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy CLIMATE RESILIENCE PROCESS CRITERIA FOR CERTIFICATION","publisher":{"name":"Climate Bonds Initiative","organization":"climate-bonds-initiative"},"document_type":"guide","language":"en","date_published":"2025-05","source_url":"https://www.climatebonds.net/files/documents/publications/Climate-bonds_Resilience-taxonomy_certification_outline_May-2025.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document provides a framework for certifying climate resilience investments through three primary components: making a substantial contribution to resilience, managing maladaptation risks, and ensuring no significant harm to climate mitigation. 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The framework also incorporates mandatory safeguards for climate adaptation and resilience, biodiversity, water management, social standards, and animal welfare to prevent unintended negative impacts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000987#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"A mandatory precondition for all assets and use-of-proceeds (UoP) certifications is that the farmland must be free from deforestation and conversion of natural ecosystems since 31 December 2010.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000987#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Eligible climate mitigation measures for assets and UoP are divided into reducing absolute emissions (N2O, CH4, and CO2) and sequestering carbon. 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Certification is valid for five years, subject to annual verifications by approved verifiers who sample at least 10% of procured volume and suppliers.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000753#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The Agri-Food DCF Sourcing Criteria mandate that certified entities source agri-food commodities from land that has not undergone deforestation or conversion of natural ecosystems after a specific cut-off date of 31 December 2020.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000753#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Entity certification is available to supply chain actors, including traders, processors, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, provided that at least 50% of their revenue is generated from agri-food commodity supply chains.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000753#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To achieve certification, an entity must meet a 'Certification Threshold' where compliant activities represent at least 90% of its total agri-food net procurement spend; any individual commodity representing 1% or more of that spend must be included in the compliance assessment.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000753#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Traceability requirements are tiered based on risk: commodities from high-risk countries, as well as cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, pulp and paper, and soy regardless of origin, must be traceable to the geolocation of the original production land plot. For other commodities from low-risk countries, tracing to the country of origin or primary processing facility is sufficient until 1 January 2030.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000753#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The criteria strictly prohibit the use of mass-balance supply chain models, requiring instead that all traceable DCF agri-food commodities be segregated from non-DCF or unknown-origin commodities at every stage of the supply chain.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000753#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Country risk categorization is determined using Global Forest Watch data; a country is classified as high-risk if the ratio of total natural forest land lost between 2018 and 2022 relative to the total natural forest cover in 2000 is higher than 1%.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000753#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Annual verification is required to maintain certification, which is valid for five years. 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It outlines eligibility criteria, the 90% certification threshold for economic activities, and the necessity of a comprehensive Transition Plan including a vision, strategic narrative, and finance plan. It also mandates governance structures, parent group commitments to net zero and the cessation of fossil fuel expansion, and strict public disclosure requirements.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-000636#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"To obtain SLD certification, at least 90% of the economic activities linked to the debt instrument must comply with specific Climate Mitigation Performance Target, Delivery Strategy, Governance, and Disclosure requirements. 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