Resilience Finance Lab

 

University of Miami · Climate Resilience Institute

Changing how capital
flows toward resilience.

We connect researchers, practitioners, and capital allocators to move more capital into resilience and risk reduction.

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Rooted in South Florida · Connecting research, practice & capital.

Green mangrove island and blue water in Biscayne National Park, Miami-Dade County

Miami is where resilience meets investment.

01 / Our purpose

Seeding research.
Building practice.

The Resilience Finance Lab seeds research, builds communities of practice, and helps change how capital flows toward resilience.

About the RFL

The Resilience Finance Lab exists to seed the research and build the communities of practice, proof points, and institutional relationships needed to change how capital flows toward resilience.

Our goal is a financial system that accurately values and funds physical risk reduction and resilience at scale.

The RFL serves to be the bridge between academic researchers, practitioners building projects on the ground, and the institutions ultimately funding their work.

02 / Our approach

What we work on

Seeding research

We back research that shows where resilience investment works best.

Building communities of practice

We connect practitioners so lessons from one project can strengthen the next and to co-create new approaches.

Bridging research, practice, and capital

We help innovative, evidence-backed projects and institutions that provide capital find each other.

Connecting resilience financeAn illustrative diagram connecting financial instruments, interventions, benefits and hazards through evidence. This is not a visualization of the dataset.ResilienceFinanceInstrumentsInterventionsBenefitsHazards

03 / Tools for practitioners

Research & Data

We’re building a curated evidence base on resilience finance: a Resilience Finance Repository of research, instruments, transactions, and programs and a Knowledge Explorer to visualize connections between financing, interventions, benefits, and hazards.

Research & Data

04 / Our community

Explore the RFL

People

Meet the core team advancing resilience finance.

Audience at the Resilience 365 Conference

Partners

The institutions we build and test this work with.

Climate resilience workshop presentation

Work with us

For project sponsors, funders, researchers, and students.

Moving capital toward resilience,
project by project. Market by market.

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