Early action is one of the core pillars of resilience. Yet global frameworks—the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, among others—have yet to fully translate commitments into scalable, cross-cutting action due to context-specific, siloed approaches and governance bottlenecks. As climate-related impacts intensify, fragmented early-action practices hinder scaling and sustained impact. Comprehensive Risk Management (CRM) offers a path to break silos by uniting risk reduction, anticipatory action, pre-arranged finance, and pathways for managing residual losses within people-centred portfolios.
This session will demonstrate how CRM helps countries shift from isolated climate resilience and disaster risk reduction efforts to integrated, layered risk management that prioritises the most vulnerable, foregrounds Local, Indigenous, and Traditional Knowledge with national and international actors, and shows practical ways communities are redefining “action” with links to finance, authority, and community agency. It will also facilitate an understanding of financial needs and explore the existing ways to access the necessary resources, beyond traditional approaches to accessing finance that are becoming increasingly restrictive and difficult to access for certain categories of actors.
