INSTRUMENT ANALYSIS PÁRAMO WILDFIRE RESILIENCE FACILITY

The Páramo Wildfire Resilience Facility is a proposed financial vehicle designed to protect Colombia's high-elevation páramo ecosystems from catastrophic wildfires. It utilizes a two-pronged approach: a parametric insurance policy to provide rapid liquidity for emergency fire suppression and an adaptation and recovery trust fund for long-term risk mitigation and ecosystem restoration. The facility targets ecosystem service beneficiaries, such as water utilities and corporations, to fund these activities, aiming to safeguard the drinking water supply for millions of people in the Bogotá metropolitan area.

• Páramos are critical for Colombia's water security, covering only 2% of the national territory but providing over 70% of the country's drinking water.
• The Facility employs a first-of-its-kind parametric insurance mechanism where payouts are triggered by pre-agreed parameters (such as humidity and wind speed) and disbursed within 24 hours to firefighters for emergency response.
• A complementary adaptation and recovery trust fund, hosted by Bogotá’s Water Fund, will finance pre-wildfire risk mitigation (e.g., removing dry vegetation) and post-wildfire restoration (e.g., revegetation with native species).
• The pilot project focuses on the three water systems supplying Bogotá (Northern, Chingaza, and Southern), potentially impacting 12.7 million residents.
• Financial modeling for the pilot estimates a total need of USD 1.3 million, with a total insured value of USD 6 million and an annual insurance premium of approximately USD 900,000.
• The Facility identifies significant funding gaps in Colombia, noting a USD 500 million annual gap for emergency response and a USD 4.5 billion deficit for risk mitigation and recovery between 2025 and 2030.
• The instrument's long-term sustainability relies on the trust fund's ability to reduce the frequency of catastrophic wildfires, which would lower the required insurance premiums over time.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2025). INSTRUMENT ANALYSIS PÁRAMO WILDFIRE RESILIENCE FACILITY. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Paramo-Wildfire-Resilience-Facility_Vehicle-Analysis.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. INSTRUMENT ANALYSIS PÁRAMO WILDFIRE RESILIENCE FACILITY. 2025. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Paramo-Wildfire-Resilience-Facility_Vehicle-Analysis.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2025instrument, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{INSTRUMENT ANALYSIS PÁRAMO WILDFIRE RESILIENCE FACILITY}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2025}, month = oct, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Paramo-Wildfire-Resilience-Facility_Vehicle-Analysis.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }