Climate adaptation is no longer a niche conversation. The urgency is real, and the institutional attention is harder to ignore than it’s ever been.

A major new study released last month by the Centre for Impact Investing and Practices, in partnership with Temasek and Invesco, surveyed 165 Asian funders representing more than US$1 trillion in AUM - and found climate adaptation and resilience ranked as their single top impact theme. Asia is warming twice as fast as the global average, 3.7 billion of its people have been affected by climate events since 2000, and the region bears roughly 75% of the world’s adaptation financing gap. Globally, economic damages from natural disasters have grown roughly fivefold as a share of GDP since the 1970s. In 2025 alone: US$224 billion in losses, more than 17,000 fatalities.

Yet current adaptation finance flows sit at US$26-50 billion per year against needs of US$310-365 billion annually by 2035 - with less than 11% coming from the private sector. At COP30 last November, framed as the “COP of implementation and adaptation,” governments committed to tripling adaptation finance to US$120 billion per year by 2030. Still less than half of what’s needed.

So how do we make adaptation and resilience more legible to investors globally?

Full feature: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamilwyne/2026/06/01/how-leaders-can-hone-the-climate-adaptation-investment-story/