GRA · Development Finance Nexus
Spatial financeWhere capital meets hazard, exposure and transition
Technology and emerging practices
Development finance is changing its instruments: climate resilient debt clauses, pre-arranged contingent finance, outcome-based lending, credit enhancement and hybrid capital at development banks, and Earth observation for monitoring. Development Finance Nexus studies each for its risk and its evidence demands, and promotes no instrument, institution or product.
Technology and emerging practices on the record.
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Effects on safety, rights, equity and the environment.
Newer development finance instruments on the record.
- Climate resilient debt clauses, widened in 2024 to all natural hazards for eligible borrowers.
- Hybrid capital and portfolio guarantees that expand lending headroom of development banks.
- Outcome-based finance that pays on verified results.
- Earth observation for monitoring project progress and damage.
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