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Models

Tools

Initiatives

Equal Cities. Caring Systems. Climate Resilient Futures.

Models, tools, & Initiatives shaping C² (care & climate) solutions

RS

See

the Risk

RM

Manage

the Risk

OS

Verify

the Outcome

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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 to test, refine, and demonstrate how the 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

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. 

More Resources of the Hub

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Evolving Resource Repository

Our work is supported by a set of models and tools developed through applied pilots and ongoing initiatives. Together, they translate care and climate dynamics into operational insight for finance, policy, and urban planning, resource allocation and governance systems.

In Development

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The Silver Shift Policymakers Matrix - SSPM 1.0

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Tool

An eldercare taxonomy backed decision support tools that aims to help policymakers and policy advocates visualise gaps, opportunities and pathways to shape India's national longevity strategy & build actionable roadmap for a functional eldercare economy

Pilot In Progress

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The Silver Shift

Initiative

Widening eldercare gap resulting from a rapid demographic shift, a tepid policy response, fragmented governance & an underleveraged market potential. Families are forced to fill the gap. Predominantly served through unpaid care work. Most of it is provided by women. The true economic cost is hidden. The system is missing. The Silver Shift is a response to help visualise and shape a functional eldercare system in India

Methodology Refinement

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Care Infrastructure Mapping

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Model

A geo-referenced care gap assessment tool that maps availability, quality, and accessibility of health and care services to reveal care infrastructure gaps and response capacity under climate-induced stress to reveal care infrastructure gaps and inform policy, planning and investments. 

Prototype

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Climate & Care Affordability Solutions (CCAS)

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Tool

A financial instrument design support tool that enables institutions to translate their products and solutions including care, health, and climate initiatives into point of care financing solutions for households and seekers of care. 

Deployed

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Caring Futures Resource Hub

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Initiative

A research backed and curated hub of knowledge resources, evidence and actionable insights connecting care, climate, inequality and resilience to inform better policy, investment and financing decisions. Primarily for policymakers, financial institutions, investors, researchers and decision makers shaping urban futures.

Design

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Climate & Care (C²) Responsive Blended Finance Facility

Initiative

A South Asia pilot initiative across India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal to design and test a care & climate (C²) responsive blended finance model, informed by household resilience insights and generating evidence for replication across emerging Asian economies.

Methodology Refinement

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Care Sufficiency Index

Tool

A composite index that measures how adequately and equitably care needs are met across cities, and other geographic regions, adjusted for climate vulnerability.

Proof of Concept

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Care Wallet

Model

Every household has care needs, the time, labour, goods, and services, access to infrastructure, required to look after children, older persons, people with disabilities, and caregivers themselves. These needs have a monetary value, we call it the Care Wallet (CW)

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Emerging Solution Architecture

Care & climate (C²) solutions for financing, planning & resource allocation decision-making and delivery. We are designing the C² solution suite to help financing, governments , and philanthropic actors see, manage, and act on care & climate risk, the C² risk and to operationalise financing and resource allocation decisions and responses to drive resilient urban future. Models, Tools & Initiatives we are developing feeds into this solution architecture

See The Risk

Care & Climate Risk Signalling - C²RS

Identify where and when climate stress is likely to overwhelm care capacity, before financial risk materialises

Manage The Risk

Care & Climate Risk Management System - C²RM

Translate care–climate risk into disciplined financial or resource allocation action, without exclusion or disproportionate reliance on unpaid care work.

Verify The Outcomes

Care & Climate Outcomes System - C²OS

Track whether decisions actually reduced vulnerability or merely shifted risk out of sight

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