Climate Finance
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Financial Resilience in Fiji: A Gender Equality Perspective on Insurance – ADB Brief
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Briefs No. 415, October 2026 Author: Caterina Meloni, International Gender Equality and Insurance Consultant Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department. Disasters cost Fiji around 5% of GDP a year, but few people have insurance, and women have less cover than men (13.8% compared with 21.0%). This ADB brief looks at how insurance can close that gap, reviewing Fiji’s parametric insurance pilots, which pay out automatically when cyclone wind speeds or rainfall pass a set level. The pilots reached 4,296 policyholders in 2025, more than half of them women. The brief also covers selling cover through community groups and cooperatives, and an early-stage climate-risk product for small businesses. It ends with recommendations for regulators, insurers and development partners. For anyone working on climate finance in the Pacific, it shows how risk-transfer products can put money in people’s hands quickly after a disaster, and why designing them around women makes them work better.
A study of private sector engagement in climate change mitigation and adaptation activities within pacific Small Island Developing States
A study into private sector engagement in climate change mitigation and adaptation action across Pacific Small Island Developing States, that was conducted as part of the work implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program under the Green…