Our Approach
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Building care & climate resilient financial & planning systems that work in practice
Care and climate are not peripheral to resilience. They are where it succeeds or fails.
Climate induced stress is no longer an abstract or future risk for cities. It is already reshaping health, livelihoods, public budgets, and household stability, especially across cities in emerging economies. Yet most financial and policy systems still struggle to respond effectively.
Our approach starts from a simple but often overlooked reality
Climate stress is absorbed first by care systems, paid and unpaid long before it appears in financial indicators or programme outcomes.
When care capacity is exceeded, households cope through increased unpaid care work, OOP health & care spends, and lost productive time. Financial systems see the consequences only later, once resilience has already broken down.
How we approach care, climate, and finance differently?
Our approach integrates the following three principles
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Care is economic infrastructure, not just a social add on
Care is the system through which households are managed, health is maintained, labour is sustained, and economic participation is made possible. When care systems are weakened or overwhelmed, especially under situations like climate induced stress, economic and financial systems become fragile. We treat care as foundational infrastructure for resilience.
Climate risk translates to financial risk through care deficient systems
Climate induced stress does not affect households & cities evenly. It's impact also depends on care systems and their ability to absorb shocks. This means climate risk is also locational, time-bound, and mediated by care sufficiency. And it is also influenced by inequality within households and in the economy. Understanding, Measuring and Evaluating these interactions are essential for designing inclusive resilient systems
Financial & Planning systems shape who absorbs risk and at what cost
When finance does not recognise realities of care systems, risk is pushed to households (disproportionate & unaccounted burden of which falls on women) through unpaid care work, foregone economic opportunities, increased out of pocket spending, distress spending. Our approach asks - How can finance be designed to absorb and manage C² risk systemically, rather than pushing it onto households and making it invisible?
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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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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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What we are building?
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.
See the Risk - C²RS
Care & Climate Risk Signalling
Identify where and when climate stress is likely to overwhelm care capacity, before financial risk materialises
Manage the Risk - C²RM
Care & Climate Risk Management System
Translate care–climate risk into disciplined financial action, without exclusion or reliance on unpaid care.
Verify the Outcome - C²OS
Care & Climate Outcomes System
Track whether decisions actually reduced vulnerability or merely shifted risk out of sight