This invitation-only, cross-ecosystem session digs into how resilience-building assets are currently priced — or mispriced — in finance.

Following our Yale-convened session last year, "Financing Global South Resilience for Environmental and Societal Strength," we're reconvening with an update on the work since: how resilience feeds into the cost of capital, why finance is priced the way it is today, and what needs to change for capital to flow toward planetary resilience.

Since 2025, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), together with partners including UNSW Business School and the UNDP, has been developing a resilience pricing model that challenges the assumptions embedded in the cost of capital — including new work using the IFC's GEMS database. The model produces a resilience-adjusted cost of debt designed to more accurately reflect long-term returns. At a time when social, economic, and environmental risks are compounding, it offers a proof point for how resilience can be valued, and why its absence is so costly.

This event marks the model's official launch, and a rare opportunity to bring collaborators from across the ecosystem into the same room. At this pivotal stage in its development, participants will engage with the model directly: to test it, challenge it, and shape where it goes next. Our goal is to partner with the systemic actors who sit at this leverage point in resilience-forward financing.

The morning's second session turns to practical application, anchored around UNCDF, with actors representing each part of the system. The focus: how this pricing approach can make concessional and blended finance work better, and how to turn it into practical instruments backed by the concessional funders in the room.

Join us for what we believe will be one of the defining conversations of Climate Week NYC.