The Resilience Opportunity Unlocking Climate Resilience through Public Private Collaboration 2025

Design viable resilience: stacking value across archetypes4 Despite growing recognition of the need for public-private collaboration in climate resilience, many high-potential projects still struggle to reach implementation. Even when public and private interests are aligned in principle, practical barriers – such as fragmented pipelines, unclear commercial models and limited financing mechanisms – often constrain the progress. Relying on a single archetype is usually insufficient to overcome the barriers, justify the business case and mobilize private-sector investment.A promising path forward is to blend multiple archetypes within a single initiative to strengthen the overall business case. To do this, public and private-sector actors can harness the archetype models to evaluate potential pathways in which multiple value enablers can be unlocked, helping to overcome investment barriers by diversifying revenue streams, sharing risks and demonstrating clearer returns. Combining archetypes presents a feasible approach to implementing successful interventions in public-private collaboration. Mangroves as an example – how blended archetypes could work in a single initiative BOX 2 Mangrove restoration initiatives have the potential to integrate multiple archetypes, enabling diverse private-sector actors to engage based on their risk exposure and interests: –Coastal manufacturers or logistics operators can co-invest in mangrove restorations to reduce flood and storm surge risk that threatens their facilities or critical coastal infrastructure, representing operational protection (archetype 1) or supply chain resilience (archetype 2). –Insurers can invest in the mangrove restoration and underwrite parametric insurance products for nearby communities, enabled by reduced coastal flood risk and improved modelling confidence (archetype 3). –Carbon market participants or sustainability- focused corporates can purchase blue carbon credits generated from mangrove restoration to meet emissions reduction targets (archetype 4). –Hospitality developers or seafood companies can benefit from long-term ecosystem improvements, which enhance tourism potential, nearby habitats and aquaculture productivity (archetype 5). –Local retailers or consumer-facing companies can contribute to the mangrove restoration project to safeguard community livelihoods and stabilize household purchasing power in the face of climate hazards (archetype 6). The example of mangroves illustrates the potential of integrating multiple archetypes within a single climate adaptation and resilience project to unlock broader value, diversify revenue streams and mobilize a wider set of private-sector actors. However, achieving this level of integration requires thoughtful design and construction of clear revenue models, a balanced risk-return profile that works for diverse stakeholders and aggregation to a scale that is meaningful for private-sector engagement. Having these in place is critical for building more scalable and investable climate resilience initiatives. The Resilience Opportunity: Unlocking Climate Resilience through Public-Private Collaboration 16