The Peru Resilience Hub at COP30

1. Resilience Pays Off: Act Early – Build Opportunity

The science is clear: In the increasingly complex global risk landscape, resilience is no longer optional. Investing in resilience is not a sunk cost – it is a strategic move that safeguards development, protects future returns, and opens new opportunities. The evidence shows that delaying action increases long-term costs, deepens exposure, jeopardizing planetary and human security, and limits options. Whether through resilient infrastructure, diversified livelihoods, or early warning systems, building resilience helps governments, businesses, and communities avoid the escalating costs of disruption – and preserve their capacity to grow and adapt.

Despite this, resilience remains chronically underfunded. Many financing systems prioritize short-term outputs over longer-term risk reduction, creating structural disincentives to act early. This track explores how to realign those systems by embedding resilience into planning, budgeting, and investment frameworks. It brings forward tools in fiscal policy, public-private finance, and risk-sensitive budgeting that treat resilience not as a sunk cost but as a foundation for opportunity, competitiveness, and future readiness.

2. Facing the Trade-Offs: Towards Thoughtfully Designed Transformations

Systemic transformation is essential for building resilient and just futures – but it always involves trade-offs. Whether in food systems, energy transitions, or governance reform, shifting away from harmful, unsustainable or unjust trajectories can create short-term costs or have unequal impacts on different livelihoods and society groups. These tensions are often overlooked, yet they shape whether transitions succeed – and for whom.

This track focuses on how public institutions, businesses, and communities can anticipate and manage the political, social, and ecological costs of change. It also calls for confronting “perverse resilience” – systems that remain robust but in ways that entrench inequality, degrade ecosystems, and suppress innovation. It invites scrutiny of trade-offs, sequencing, and safeguards in efforts to transform institutions, economies, or governance regimes that are resilient in the wrong ways. By planning for complexity rather than avoiding it, actors can design transitions that are not only ambitious, but realistic, legitimate, and built to endure.

3. Mind the Misalignment Gap: Realigning Actions across Timescales, Mandates, and Funding Cycles

Effective resilience action depends on coordination across timeframes, mandates, and jurisdictions – yet these often remain out of sync. Political cycles operate on four- or five-year terms, while climate risks unfold over decades. Infrastructure is built for lifetimes, but investment planning is locked into short-term returns. Institutional mandates are often sector-bound, while real-world risks are cross-cutting. These mismatches – temporal, spatial, institutional, and financial – undermine the ability to plan for slow-onset threats, integrate across sectors, and invest in long-term risk reduction.

This track focuses on closing the misalignment gap. It explores how national and local governments, financial institutions, funders and implementing agencies can realign short-term decision cycles with the long-term nature of resilience-building. It invites examples of institutional innovation – such as adaptive planning models and feedback loops, resilience budget tagging, forward-compatible infrastructure design, and coordinated multi-level governance. Whether in urban planning, sovereign climate finance, or sectoral adaptation efforts, the goal is to enable systems that are flexible, anticipatory, and aligned across spatial and temporal scales. 

4. Risk is Not What It Seems: Redefining & Repricing Risk to Unlock Better Responses

Risk is not neutral. This track interrogates how narratives, financial tools, and institutional priorities shape who is protected and who is left behind. From credit ratings and sovereign debt assessments to disaster planning and public risk registers, the ways we define and price risk have direct consequences for equity, agency, and long-term resilience. Risks that are real but hard to quantify – such as social exclusion, ecosystem collapse, or slow-onset climate impacts – are  overlooked, while perceived or misunderstood risks, especially in climate-vulnerable countries or sectors, can lead to an inflated cost of capital. These distort insurance pricing, deter adaptation finance, and inflate the cost of long-term investment The track will explore how to reform risk tools and narratives to reflect a fuller spectrum of threats, reduce systemic bias, embed equity, and enable decisions that lower vulnerability rather than reproduce or exacerbate it.

5. More Than Inclusion: Designing Systems for Agency and Equity

Resilience strategies often emphasize participation, but true agency requires a shift in how power, value, and legitimacy are structured. This track explores how institutions across governance, finance, and planning can enable  individual and collective agency in different forms by redistributing influence, recognizing diverse leadership, and resourcing locally led action.

A critical step is expanding how we define and work with value. Systems must acknowledge that resilience is built not only through financial capital, but through social cohesion, lived knowledge, ecological integrity, and cultural identity. Sessions will explore how to operationalize this diversity of capitals in decision-making, design, and funding mechanisms – from public  investments and donor strategies to business models and data systems. Whether through participatory governance, co-created accountability tools, or community-owned metrics, this track highlights actionable strategies that embed agency, build trust, and enable lasting, just outcomes.

6. Solutions in Action: Bridging Climate, Nature, and Equity Goals   

Meeting the scale of the society challenges posed by the climate and biodiversity crises requires both advancing new ideas and ensuring proven approaches take root. Building on the COP30 Presidency’s call for a “Granary of Solutions,” it focuses on solution approaches that connect agendas across climate, biodiversity, equity, and livelihoods, creating coherence that strengthens systems over time.

The track will explore how diverse knowledge systems – from ancestral practices and community governance to tech breakthroughs and AI – can be recombined to address complex risks.  Importantly, resilience solutions are not necessarily based on completely novel or new elements. In fact, old (often marginalized) knowledge systems keep the memory of various resilience strategies that were used in the past and can set the foundation for current action. This track  will highlight the novel ways in which solutions are successfully surfaced by recombining old and new elements. It will also consider the institutional structures, financing models, and collaborative platforms that help solutions scale, while staying grounded in local realities, inclusive, and capable of evolving with shifting conditions.