Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Communities on the front lines of climate change face rising sea levels, shifting migration patterns, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and other challenges that threaten lives and livelihoods. Rare envisions a world where people and communities living in climate vulnerable places can withstand the impacts of climate change, and thrive in the places they call home.
Stories from the frontline
Stories from the frontline
Take a tour of Rare’s work with communities around the world to build their resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Rare's Approach
Rare’s approach to climate resilience
Rare pursues this vision with an approach rooted in supporting local leadership, promoting ecosystem-based adaptation, incorporating behavioral science, deploying sustainable and equitable finance, and scaling our approach globally.
Local Leadership
Some of the most climate-vulnerable communities are rural and remote, leaving top-down strategies from national governments ineffective. Rare supports local leaders with the resources to define, prioritize, design, implement, and scale locally led adaptation solutions in their municipalities.
Ecosystem-based Adaptation
Sustainable practices ensure ecosystems like mangroves, coral reefs, forests, water, and agricultural systems can adapt to the impacts of climate change. Rare works with fishers, farmers, and other resource users to adopt sustainable practices that help build resilience in a changing climate, ensuring that community needs are prioritized.
Behavioral Science
People and communities are more likely to adopt climate adaptation measures if they consider the factors that drive how, when, and why people make decisions. Rare’s approach, rooted in the science of human behavior, meaningfully engages people to ensure longer-lasting impact.
Sustainable & Equitable Finance
Rare connects communities on the frontlines of climate change to financial services like savings, credit, and insurance, helping them build resilience to financial shocks fueled by climate change. By working with financial institutions and insurance providers, Rare is increasing direct support to local governments and people, and getting climate finance to frontline communities—including through nature-based financing projects like blue carbon.
Scaling our approach globally
Governments and global partners are key partners for delivering nature-based and locally led solutions for climate adaptation. We provide them with scientific and practical guidance for building resilience around the world.
