ANTALYA, NOVEMBER 11, 2026 – Today, Fostering Investable National Implementation (FINI) names its first two vanguard projects—country-level approaches and networks—to accelerate investment in on-the-ground climate resilience. These efforts illustrate how partnerships can help connect national priorities with private-sector engagement and practical financing pathways.

Developing countries need up to $365 billion annually, which would accumulate to $1 trillion by 2028 alone, for adaptation and resilience efforts. FINI, is an ambitious, three-year drive launched by the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) at COP30. It aims to make climate adaptation and resilience easier to finance. The drive mobilizes a broad range of private sector and financial stakeholders to translate national priorities into real investment on the ground. 

The vanguard projects are selected for their innovative example, showing how coalitions can be formed to strengthen public-private collaboration and test mechanisms, incentives, and collaborations to close in-country adaptation and resilience investment gaps. These include: 

• The Brazilian Coalition for Investment in Climate Resilience, led by GSG Impact’s national partner in Brazil, Aliança pelo Impacto. The coalition is a new initiative founded by Aliança pelo Impacto that now includes over twenty organizations focused on identifying investment opportunities, addressing barriers to private- capital mobilization, and advancing financing solutions for climate adaptation and resilience. With thirteen years of experience, Aliança pelo Impacto is liaising with the government of Brazil, the national development bank, and the country’s private sector to develop new financial instruments and advance regulatory frameworks that mobilize investments in adaptation.
• Benin-ORI Partners’ Sovereign Resilience and Inclusion Finance Initiative, an innovative approach that tests the way to connect national resilience and inclusion priorities with catalytic philanthropy and private investment, with a focus on measurable development outcomes in Benin. The initiative aims to integrate social and climate priorities into a national resilience and inclusion approach structured around five essential systems: food security, access to water, healthcare, decent housing, and employment. Climate adaptation cuts across all five, with tackling extreme poverty at the heart of the initiative. 

Together, these approaches illustrate how stronger investment-enabling conditions can help translate adaptation and resilience priorities into opportunities for inclusive and sustainable economic growth. 

“Adaptation is a global challenge with locally felt impacts,” explains Jorge Gastelumendi, the co-lead of FINI and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center. 

“Building a bridge between this global and local nature of adaptation is exactly what FINI is about,” continues FINI co-lead and senior vice president, International, at NRDC, Yamide Dagnet. “These vanguard projects highlight how locally led and managed networks can move the needle for climate action.” 

“National Adaptation plans are not credible without national investment plans. National investment plans need clear pathways for the private sector to invest. GSG Impact’s contribution is to build coalitions of action in our vanguard countries, starting with Brazil, bringing together private sector actors who want to collaborate with each other and their governments to create those pathways. We will add value to those coalitions by connecting them to each other and to the expertise and networks that the FINI platform is developing” adds GSG Impact Chair, Right Hon Nick Hurd.

Sani Bankoley, founder and CEO of ORI Partners and FINI representative for the vanguard project in Benin, adds, “Through FINI, we see an opportunity to create the conditions for capital to be deployed by bringing together national leadership, catalytic philanthropy, and private investment to turn resilience and inclusion priorities into investable opportunities in a measurable way.” 

For more information on FINI, visit https://onebillionresilient.org/fini.  

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About the organizations

The Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center builds individual and community resilience in the face of climate impacts. It aims to reach one billion people around the world with resilience solutions to climate change by 2030.  For more information, visit onebillionresilient.org.

Established in 1970, NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Our team of more than 800 lawyers, policy experts, scientists, economists, and communications specialists work across the United States and around the world, from offices in Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Santa Monica, as well as a representative office in Beijing and affiliate offices in New Delhi (through NRDC’s wholly owned for-profit subsidiary, NRDC India Private Limited) and London (through its UK-based partner NRDC International). For more information, visit nrdc.org.  

ORI Partners is an independent impact advisory firm specialising in innovative sovereign and climate finance, with a focus on mobilising private capital for sustainable development in emerging and developing economies. Drawing on extensive international capital markets expertise, ORI Partners works alongside governments, development finance institutions and private-sector partners to design and implement financing solutions that bridge national development priorities with international capital markets. Its work spans sustainable sovereign finance, blended finance, carbon markets and resilience and inclusion financing, with a strong emphasis on translating financial innovation into measurable economic, social and environmental impact. For more information, visit ori-partners.com.

GSG Impact helps countries build impact economies – systems where all participants put long-term economic, social and environmental value at the heart of decision making. We help create the infrastructure, information, and incentives for public and private capital to flow towards positive social and environmental impact. GSG Impact is the cornerstone of the GSG Impact Partnership – a global network of 44 National Partners representing 49 countries: more than half in emerging markets. National Partners are fully locally led and operated. They are co-created by leaders from all parts of a country’s impact ecosystem – bringing together government, investors, businesses, and civil society to drive long-term economic systems change. For more information, visit gsgimpact.org.

Aliança pelo Impacto, a GSG Impact National Partner, has been strengthening Brazil’s impact ecosystem for over 13 years. As a backbone organization, it raises awareness, connects, and supports key stakeholders, fostering collaboration to consolidate the country’s impact economy. Today, they represent more than 190 Brazilian organizations. For more information, visit https://aliancapeloimpacto.org.br.