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Enhancing Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Green Finance Through Proportionate Sustainable Finance Standards

This guideline note addresses the challenge developing countries face in aligning with evolving global sustainable finance standards while safeguarding financial inclusion and inclusive green finance.

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AlHuda CIBE Facilitates ARC to Establish Re-Takaful Facility

The ARC WAQF ReTakaful Facility will operate as a mutual, non-profit platform, pooling risks across participating countries to offer affordable, sustainable, and ethical reinsurance coverage helping strengthen the resilience of communities most affected by natural disasters and extreme weather events.

FinDev Blog

Pix and the Path to Climate Resilience in Brazil

While international climate finance commitments have accelerated in recent years, little reaches local communities to support those most affected by the climate crisis. Brazil's instant payment system Pix could help change that.

FinDev Blog

Restarting After the Storm: Building Climate Resilience for Small Businesses in Ghana

Advans Ghana shares how it is developing targeted responses for clients affected by floods and fires, with recovery lending and client-centered support.

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Finance, Climate and Gender: Empowering Women Agents of Change

This report highlights how women’s financial exclusion and climate vulnerability are deeply interconnected, and showcases solutions, rooted in women-centered financial services, that strengthen women’s resilience to climate shocks.

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Building Rural Women’s Climate Resilience: Seven Business Drivers Delivering Commercial Value

As climate pressures rise, strengthening rural women’s resilience is critical for their livelihoods and for the long-term viability of the rural businesses that serve them. This paper identifies seven practical business drivers that simultaneously strengthen rural women’s climate resilience and business performance.

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From Safety Net to Springboard

This paper explores how integrating inclusive finance with social protection can drive climate action and build resilience.

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The Agenda is Out for Social Finance Vibe 2025: The Great Rebalancing

This year’s theme reflects the sector’s response to evolving EU strategies, climate challenges and digital transformation.

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LuxFLAG Launches Transition Label to Bridge Critical Gap in Sustainable Investment Landscape

The Transition Label responds to a growing need in the sustainable investment ecosystem: enabling the financing of strategies that are aligned with science-based transition pathways but may not yet fully meet the strict thresholds of green, climate, or impact classifications.

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Pakistan Learns From the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s Experience in Climate-Smart Agriculture Finance

State Bank of Pakistan seeks to learn from Reserve Bank of New Zealand– one of a small group of central banks currently spearheading climate-smart agriculture financial regulation – how it can protect its smallholder farmers from climate risks and support banks eager to finance climate-friendly farming.