On Friday, December 12, 2025, Climate Civics and the Climate Value Exchange will host the 2nd formal event of the Resilient Prosperity Forum series. This special event will review progress ten years after the Paris Agreement and frame the outlook for climate cooperation and action in 2026, after the COP30 round of UN Climate Change negotiations, including new commitments on information integrity, adaptation and resilience, financial innovation, and multilevel governance.
We will have a preliminary open discussion for registered participants on Thursday, December 11, 2025. See below for the updated schedule.
Date: Friday, December 12, 2025
Start time: 9:00 am EST / 14:00 UTC
Duration: 120 minutes
30 min - Keynote Speakers
30 min - Experts and Moderated Discussion
30 min - 2026 Outlook and Emerging Insights
30 min - Further informal discussion
Speakers, experts, and keynotes will include:
Lisa Friedman - The New York Times
Nfamara Dampha - University of Minnesota, Natural Capital Project Leadership Team, Adaptation Indicators Expert Group
Olav Kjørven - Article 109
Selamawit Wubet - Global Center on Adaptation
Ahead of the COP30, Climate Civics issued a policy brief outlining key areas of needed improvement in the cooperative effort to accelerate climate action:
Move beyond the idea of “solutions” and shift to a mindset that favors adaptive systems design, so local economies benefit from new financing attuned to local risk reduction and resilience needs.
Connect city-level food finance to resilience-building investment in rural communities and agricultural landscapes, using climate banking innovation, multidimensional metrics, and cooperative risk reduction to achieve benefits that compound positive effects, attract further investment, and persist over time.
Support civic renewal and revitalization by creating mindful and inclusive civic spaces that elevate stakeholders’ voices and optimize the flow of resources to resilience-building local investments.
Establish open information safeguards that recognize the link between decent work, factual information, and human dignity, rights, and agency, to reduce the risk of intrusive or misleading information flows generated by artificial intelligence systems leading to misinformed decisions, preventable costs, and other destabilizing effects.
Prioritize a shift away from hidden cost dependency—so that public investments and incentives, economy-wide regulations, and international trade relations, reward investments and activities that prevent harm, reduce risk, and support enhanced shared security and wellbeing.
Invest in climate-resilient infrastructure, and leverage its added value to support smart, multiphase planning for diversified, adaptive and sustainable local economies.
Key messages linked to our overall analysis of COP30 outcomes:
Zero emissions economies need to become standard before 2040; this was not formally agreed.
Adaptation and resilience measures can reshape economies to be climate-secure—if emissions are successfully reduced; Belém progress needs activation.
Food systems hold trillions of dollars in poorly spent capital; future COPs need more progress on transformation.
Future economic security for all nations will depend on going well beyond what was agreed in Belém.
From the 2025 Reinventing Prosperity report Transcending Crisis:
Decent work and dignified inclusive processes are the foundational design elements for a livable future. Give more people greater agency, in real terms, with everyday benefits to health and wellbeing, and we can achieve a world free from deprivation, conflict, and chaos.
From the Climate Civics report on COP30:
The most common sense approach to future investment, governance, and geopolitics, is to lead in securing a climate-resilient future for every community, nation, and sector of the economy. The Mutirão—the cooperative engineering of a climate-resilient future—must be much more than hopeful language; it must play out as a real-world cooperative endeavor to raise ambition, spark the climate-resilient economy everywhere, and secure a livable future.
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Start time: 9:00 am EST / 14:00 UTC
Duration: 60 minutes
Registration is good for both sessions
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