Southeast Asia civil society spurs regional cooperation on Climate and Disaster Risk Financing
Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities PRESS RELEASE BANGKOK, THAILAND, 22 May 2026 — As climate and disaster risks continue to intensify across Southeast Asia, regional stakeholders explore a more coordinated approach to Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI), following the conclusion of the Multi-Actor Partnership on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (MAP-CDRFI) Southeast Asia Workshop convened by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) on May 20-21, 2026. “Climate and disaster risks in Southeast Asia are becoming more frequent, more complex, and more costly, with vulnerable communities bearing the heaviest impacts,” stressed ICSC [...]
Gov’t, academe, private sector commit to advance climate finance in PHL
A broad range of stakeholders led by legislators, national agencies, and non-government groups pledged together to accelerate the roll out of climate and disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) initiatives to protect vulnerable communities from the worsening impacts of climate change.
Make climate finance pro-poor, equitable, and people-centered – Asian countries
BALI, INDONESIA, June 1, 2022 – Governments and civil society groups from South and Southeast Asia signed an agreement to enable inclusive, gender equitable, and human rights-based climate and disaster financing for vulnerable nations. “Worsening climate change impacts, particularly episodic extreme weather events, are threatening no less than the long-term economic viability of developing countries. Climate and disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) is thus central to the response to such an existential threat by making urgently needed resources available and by providing more inclusive and responsive services. Through CDRFI, countries can develop stronger, more coordinated climate change and disaster [...]
Vulnerable nations set to design and test loss and damage funding facility
Finance ministers from vulnerable nations have agreed to use philanthropic funds to demonstrate how a funding mechanism for victims of the climate crisis could work by Chloé Farand | April 25, 2021 | Published by Climate Home News | READ THE STORY HERE A coalition of vulnerable countries is getting to work to develop an international funding mechanism for victims of climate disasters. Finance ministers of the V20 group of vulnerable nations, a coalition of 48 developing countries, have agreed to design and test a funding facility to address the losses and damages of lives, [...]
MAP: protecting communities from climate change impacts
by Janssen Martinez Editor’s Note: Janssen Martinez is the lead climate finance analyst of ICSC. He was in Ifugao with colleagues from March 2-4, 2021 to conduct focus group discussions with local stakeholders. The activity is part of the Multi-Actor Partnership (MAP) initiative, aimed at enabling more effective climate and disaster risk financing and insurance responses. Apart from the Philippines, MAP covers Laos, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Madagascar, Senegal, and the Caribbean. This is the first of a series of blogs on the MAP fieldwork. I wrote this piece in a place so stunning it felt unreal. It is not [...]