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Building financial resilience in frontline communities

The communities most affected by climate change and biodiversity loss are far removed from the boardrooms where green finance is designed. Yet the financial tools and strategies meant to address these crises can only succeed if they include the perspective of the people they aim to support. Rare bridges this gap, connecting frontline communities with investors and the private sector, and innovative financial solutions that reflect the realities of the people they impact.

Rare's approach

Understanding the Tools: How Finance Can Restore Nature

Learn how financial innovation supports environmental and social outcomes:

How can a bond finance community-led conservation?

Rare’s Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) Impact Bond is an innovative financial instrument designed to channel private and philanthropic capital toward the revitalization of coastal communities and ecosystems.

How the SSF Impact Bond works
What is inclusive insurance?

Insurance builds community and financial resilience to the impacts of climate change—and Rare is making it accessible, affordable, and effective in the hardest-to-reach coastal communities.

Explore inclusive insurance
What is Rare’s vision for Blue Carbon?

Rare empowers coastal communities to manage their coastal resources sustainably thereby ensuring a more
financially and climate resilient future.

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Stories from the frontlines

Stories of Community-Led Conservation and Financial Innovation

Explore how community-led conservation is supported through innovative finance tools that empower local communities and protect natural ecosystems:

Micronesia
The Savings Clubs of Pohnpei (video)
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Honduras, Indonesia, & Brazil
Local savings clubs help small-scale fishers prepare for an uncertain future
Read their stories
Philippines
Insuring the Ensurers
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Brazil
‘Mothers of the Mangrove’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage
Read their story
Indonesia
How finance fuels coastal resilience
Read their stories

Finance in Action

Blue and green finance in action

Rare implements green and blue finance strategies to help frontline communities build wealth, restore ecosystems, and strengthen resilience to climate change. These approaches center on inclusive finance that values equity and long-term environmental health:

Explore how Rare is helping shape frontline finance:

Impact investing

How Rare launched a mission-aligned for-profit to mobilize capital for nature-positive outcomes.

Read the article
Community-Led Conservation Finance

A scalable model in Indonesia demonstrates how performance-based blue finance can empower local stewardship.

About the SSF bond

Future of finance

Redefining Finance for Climate Resilience and Biodiversity Protection

Meet the bold leaders transforming how the world invests in sustainability. From pioneers in blue finance and green finance to advocates for inclusive finance, these visionary voices are shaping financial systems that prioritize climate resilience, community empowerment, and the protection of our planet’s most vital ecosystems.

Visionary Voices: Redefining Sustainable Finance

These changemakers are redefining how we finance sustainability on the frontlines of climate change:

  • Markus Knigge
  • Karen Sack
  • Kathlyn Tan
  • Bruce McNamer
Rare leadership

Hear from Rare’s leaders share how Rare deploys financial tools to build resilience in frontline communities.

  • Brett Jenks
  • Caleb McClennen
  • Kate Schweigart

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