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The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) has issued guidelines for its May 2026 Innovation Challenges, a call for proposals seeking transformative resilience solutions from entrepreneurs and organisations in the Global South. The initiative offers selected winners up to US$50,000 in funding and a comprehensive support package including mentoring, a leadership academy, and communications assistance to scale innovations that address climate and environmental risks.

The summary of the 12th Meeting of the San Giorgio Group (SGG12), convened by the Climate Policy Initiative in March 2026, outlines a strategic framework to accelerate climate-development alignment. The meeting focused on moving from incremental interventions to systemic transformation by leveraging 'relevance, resilience, and resolve' to scale climate finance and improve country-level delivery.

The 'Resilience Science Must-Knows' report, a collaboration between the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Global Resilience Partnership, and Future Earth, distills decades of resilience science into nine broad, actionable principles designed for decision-makers across various sectors and scales to help societies cope, adapt, and transform amid increasing global volatility.

This guide defines grants as non-repayable transfers used for climate projects with low commercial potential, detailing three main types: development grants, technical assistance, and project preparation facilities. It identifies a wide range of providers from philanthropic organizations to multilateral banks and outlines the operational timelines and overhead costs associated with grant deployment, citing examples from Ethiopia and Rwanda.

This infographic and guide from the International Institute for Sustainable Development explains the necessity of integrating conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding into nature-based solutions (NbS) for climate adaptation to avoid exacerbating social, economic, and environmental tensions.

This briefing by the World Resources Institute (WRI) presents a financial case for climate adaptation, arguing that such investments are highly profitable and synergistic with general development goals. Based on an analysis of 320 projects, WRI finds that adaptation investments can yield significant returns through a 'triple dividend' of avoided losses, induced economic development, and additional social and environmental benefits.

This briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute explores how development and climate financiers can scale up locally led adaptation (LLA) by leveraging complementarity between different funding models, building on community-led development (CLD) legacies, and integrating private sector capital.

This policy brief examines the implementation of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in Malawi to combat climate vulnerability and food insecurity. While the government has integrated CSA into national visions like MV2063 and the 2021 NDC, adoption is limited by insecure land tenure, underfunded extension services, and a budgetary focus on short-term input subsidies (AIP) over long-term resilience. The author recommends reviving the National Climate Change Fund, securing land rights, and scaling participatory learning models like Farmer Field Schools to transition from pilot projects to national resilience.

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) Indicator Guidance 2024-2029 provides a framework for grantees and partners to monitor and report progress on resilience-building activities. The system categorizes indicators into four core metrics (people supported, investments mobilised, people more resilient, and organisations supported) and three specialized work areas: Innovation, Knowledge, and Policy.

This document is a report on the 32nd meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP-32) of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), held via videoconference on May 22-23, 2024. It details the meeting's proceedings, including the adoption of 24 decisions, financial reports, the transition of the Executive Directorate's headquarters from Uruguay to Panama, and the expansion of the IAI's scientific and associate network.

This document is a report on the 32nd meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP-32) to the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), held via videoconference on 22-23 May 2024. It details the proceedings, financial approvals, the relocation of the IAI headquarters from Uruguay to Panama, and the adoption of a new Strategic Plan for 2024-2030.

The 'Resilience Science Must-Knows' report, published by the Global Resilience Partnership, Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Future Earth, distills decades of resilience science into nine core principles for decision-makers. Developed through a collective effort involving over 120 researchers and 162 leaders, the document aims to bridge the gap between complex scientific research and actionable strategy across various sectors to help societies cope, adapt, and transform amid increasing global volatility.

RMI describes the role of solar-plus-battery-storage microgrids in creating community resilience hubs, particularly during extreme weather events like hurricanes. Based on a cohort of leaders from various institutions, the guide outlines five key factors—facility suitability, electricity costs/net metering, energy efficiency, battery sizing strategies, and available funding—that can help non-taxable entities successfully implement microgrid projects in low-to-moderate income US communities.

This executive summary by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) examines the role of natural infrastructure in addressing Canada's water infrastructure gap. It assesses six federal funding programs against 14 enabling criteria, finding that while most allow natural infrastructure, actual funding remains disproportionately low. The document provides recommendations to integrate natural infrastructure into federal frameworks, increase funding for proactive adaptation, and build local government capacity.

This research paper examines the 'anticipatory capacity' of farmers in Peru's Ica Basin to respond to global change across an extreme elevation gradient. The study finds that a lack of access to weather forecasts and market information, exacerbated by poor infrastructure maintenance and telecommunication gaps, undermines the resilience of smallholders and upstream producers compared to the coastal agro-export sector.

This research paper outlines the critical role of the water-energy nexus in urban planning, highlighting how urbanization, climate change, and economic globalization create pressures that require resilience-based management and further research into waste and resource recovery.

The report "Resilience Science Must-Knows" synthesizes decades of research into nine fundamental principles designed to guide decision-makers in building systemic resilience. It defines resilience as the capacity to live and develop amidst change and uncertainty, emphasizing a balance between coping, adapting, and transforming systems to ensure human prosperity within planetary boundaries.

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) 2024 End of Year Letter outlines the organization's strategic direction for 2024-2029, highlighting its focus on locally-led innovation, private sector engagement through the PREPARE initiative, and the launch of data-democratization tools via the Resilient Planet Initiative.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative outlines recommendations for developing financial instruments for climate adaptation, drawing on a decade of experience from The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (The Lab), which has supported 78 instruments and mobilized over $1.2 billion for adaptation projects.

This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on December 10, 2024, establishes a formal collaboration between the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2) of the University of Chile. The agreement aims to enhance the exchange of information and scientific cooperation regarding climate science, resilience, and sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean.