climate resilient systems | caring futures | equal cities
Caring Futures Resource Hub
Where care, climate and decision making meet
Resource Type
Initiative
Current Status
went live on December 2025, is being gradually updated
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.
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What it is?
The Hub is designed as a digital repository of resources mainly focused on emerging economies, with a strong emphasis on Asian contexts. It brings together
original research and synthesis on care, gender, climate induced stress, and resilience,
applied learning from RIINE's pilots and initiatives, as well as other care & climate initiatives
policy briefs, explainers, and frameworks that translate evidence into decision relevant insight,
multi-country perspectives that allow cities and institutions to learn from each other.
The Hub creates a shared reference point, a thinking space, a test bed of ideas, insights & institutional models that decision makers can use to explore options, design responses, shape caring resilient urban futures and economies that are viable, resilient, equal and inclusive.
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Why it is being developed?
Care systems underpin household resilience, labour markets, and economic participation, yet care remains largely invisible in climate policy, finance, and planning. Evidence on unpaid care work, care access, and climate stress exists, but it is fragmented across disciplines, sectors, and institutions.
The Hub exists to close this gap by consolidating, contextualising, and connecting knowledge so that care is treated as a central factor in shaping climate-resilient and equitable futures, rather than a peripheral social issue.
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What it enables in the C² architecture?
Shared understanding of care–climate risk - Decision makers have access to a common evidence base on how care, inequality and climate intersect.
Stronger policy and finance narratives - Care is framed as a material factor in resilience, labour, and economic outcomes, strengthening the case for action.
Informed experimentation and innovation - Policymakers, donors, investors, researchers and practitioners draw on consolidated learning to test new approaches in finance, policy, and service delivery.
Continuity between research and action - Insights from applied pilots and tools feed back into public knowledge, reducing the gap between theory and practice.
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Current & Potential Use Cases
System-level role of the Hub - Across users, the Caring Futures Resource Hub functions as, a shared evidence base that reduces fragmentation, and a translation layer between research, policy, and finance, ensuring care and climate risks are not treated as peripheral or anecdotal.
Urban Planning - Use insights from the Hub to recognise care systems as critical to household level resilience, response to climate induced stress, health preparedness, and community & city level resilience planning, climate & care responsive urban infrastructure investments, peer learning across cities
Financial Institutions & Insurers - Understand how care stress and climate exposure translate into financial risk and unmet demand not captured by conventional metrics, draw on research and applied learning to explore new financing, insurance, product design linked to care and climate realities
Philanthropy, Impact Funds & development partners - Use the Hub to inform gender responsive, climate smart, care integrated funding strategies grounded in evidence from emerging economies; validate problem statements and intervention logic before committing capital or launching pilots and programmes, use the hub as a neutral platform to share learning from programmes and contribute to sector wide understanding.
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Related Resources
explore resources we are developing, the practical building blocks behind the care-climate (C²) risk management and decision support architecture. These resources are developed through applied pilots and ongoing initiatives. Together, they translate care and climate (C²) dynamics into operational insight for finance, policy, and urban planning, resource allocation and governance systems.
Climate & Care (C²) Responsive Blended Finance Facility
Initiative
Design
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.
