The international crisis financing system is fragmented and not configured to meet current or future crisis financing demands effectively. Despite advances in early warning systems and climate risk modeling, finance is too often reactive, fragmented, and late. This session will provide an early view of new research on the use of pre-arranged finance, looking at trends in triggerable finance globally. It will then explore how triggers can be used to transform early warnings to early action to protect people, economies and nature. By blending science, technology, and finance—from AI-enhanced forecasting, to innovative risk transfer instruments, to anticipatory action pilots in agriculture, coral reefs, and fragile ecosystems—the session will spotlight models that move beyond theory into scalable, investable solutions.
