Advancing Equal Caring Resilient Urban Futures
Care, climate and inequality intersect and intensify risk, erode resilience, currently invisible and unmeasured.
We are building care–climate (C²) models, tools, and financing approaches to visualise these risks, develop strategies and facilitate actions to address them.
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The risk financial, planning and governance systems are missing
Climate stress does not first appear as loan defaults, insurance claims, or failed programmes and initiatives. It appears first as unpaid care work overload, rising health care needs, livelihood loss, foregone income opportunities, and increased out-of-pocket expenses on health and care.
These pressures are absorbed by households, especially women and girls, long before financial & governance systems register distress. By the time risk becomes visible in portfolios, programmes or communities, resilience has already broken down. Most systems and approaches are not designed to see this early.
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We help cities, climate & finance actors make these risks visible & manage them systemically.
We are building a Climate & Care (C²) operating system for finance and planning.
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Care Climate (C²) Models
We develop models that make care systems visible in climate and financial analysis — including the Care Wallet and the Care Sufficiency Index
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Applied Tools & Signals
Building on the C² models, we are developing tools that help city, climate & finance actors anticipate and visualise where care & real climate risk is likely to emerge
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Flagship initiatives
Applied learning platforms that help us test, refine, and demonstrate how C² models and tools can inform financial and policy decision-making in practice.
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Latest Releases on the Caring Futures Resource Hub
A curated knowledge and evidence platform that brings together research, financing approaches, policy tools, and practical insights to help leaders understand the structural role of care in shaping economies, labour markets, and resilience outcomes.
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Latest Resources - Models, Tools & Initiatives
Without tools that account for care and climate realities, risk remains invisible, investments & policy driven intervention is delayed, and resilience is built on increased out of pocket expense burden and invisible, unaccounted, unpaid care work, the burden of which disproportionately falls on women and girls resulting in not just poor resilience outcomes, but weak economies and unequal futures. RIINE's work is focussed on making the care economy visible to decision makers, advancing climate resilient systems and caring futures, in urban and semi-urban contexts, across emerging economies
Tool
The Silver Shift Policymakers Matrix - SSPM 1.0
From aspirations to architecture
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The Silver Shift
From aspirations without architecture to a functional resilient eldercare system in India
Model
Care Infrastructure Mapping
Visualising care gaps to shape equal cities & caring futures
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Climate & Care Affordability Solutions (CCAS)
From affordability barriers to structured (point of care) affordability solutions
Initiative
Caring Futures Resource Hub
Where care, climate and decision making meet
Initiative
Climate & Care (C²) Responsive Blended Finance Facility
Factoring care and climate (C²) risk into blended finance models
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Care & Climate - key sources of stress
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Climate determines when and where stress occurs
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Care systems determine whether the stress is absorbed or spills over
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Finance determines whether risk is stabilised or displaced
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When care is invisible, real climate risk is mis-allocated & invisible
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Invisible risk distorts systems, deepens inequality & fails resilience
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Our work starts from this reality
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Why Care x Climate - the C² framework
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Climate risk can't be estimated without care
Climate shocks do not appear first in balance sheets, insurance claims or programme dashboards. They appear in care systems, in health shocks, caregiving overload, service disruption, and rising out-of-pocket costs.
Understanding care is therefore not optional. It is essential to understanding climate risk in practice. Ignoring care does not make systems efficient. It makes them fragile.
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Care is how cities absorb shocks
Care systems unpaid and paid, are the first line of response when climate stress hits. Care determine whether people can remain healthy, continue working, sustain livelihoods, and participate in economic life.
When care capacity is sufficient, climate induced stress is absorbed & stabilised. When deficient, stress spills into lost livelihoods, financial distress, programme failure & lost economic opportunity.
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What a care–climate (C²) approach changes
The C²approach changes the questions we ask. Instead of asking,
Who is vulnerable? or Which assets are exposed? We ask some of the following questions
Can existing care systems absorb this level of climate stress?
If not, who bears the cost, and for how long?
How can finance respond earlier and more effectively?
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Why this matters now
Climate induced stress (like heat stress) is intensifying. Care systems are overburdened, out of pocket expenses is increasing. Financial and policy responses are under pressure to deliver results.
Without C² integration, adaptation finance will continue to underperform, inequality will deepen, & resilience gains if any will be shortlived