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New Report Identifies 250+ Climate Adaptation and Resilience Solutions for Asia Amidst Rising Funder Interest
- Asia-focused report by the Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP) and collaborators identifies 250+ priority climate adaptation and resilience solutions for Asia,[1] based on over US$100 billion in financing flows over 5 years[2]
- Study’s survey of 165 Asian funders managing over US$1 trillion in funds finds climate adaptation and resilience emerging as top impact theme by activity and interest
- Report introduces a first-ever framework to mobilise coordinated action, mapping solutions across 3 tiers of commercial viability, highlighting entry points for commercial, philanthropic, and public capital to enable cross-sector climate adaptation action
- Accompanying fund flows dashboard provides visibility on public, private and philanthropic capital flows and funding gaps in climate adaptation and resilience across China, India, and Southeast Asia
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 18 May 2026 – The Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP), in partnership with Temasek, Invesco, and ImpactSF (CGIAR Hub for Sustainable Finance), and with support from Dalberg, today launched a new report on climate adaptation and resilience (CA&R) in Asia. This regional study identifies more than 250 priority climate adaptation and resilience solutions for Asia, grounded in the region’s unique climate risks, hazards, and priorities, and informed by analysis of over US$100 billion in climate adaptation and resilience financing flows between 2021 and 2025.[3]
Launching at Ecosperity Week’s Impact Investing Roundtable 2026 on 19th May, the report “Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Asia: Pricing Risk, Sizing Opportunities, Financing Solutions” examines the region’s climate risks, financing gaps, and barriers constraining investment in adaptation and resilience solutions. This includes persistent data gaps, limited visibility of investable opportunities, and unclear financing pathways.
The CA&R solutions for Asia span three tiers of commercial viability. These include 94 low or no commercial viability solutions but which are foundational in terms of building regional resilience, 93 emerging opportunities that are promising but need catalytic capital to scale, and 65 commercially viable solutions that have proven track record across markets. Together, they offer clear entry points across the spectrum of capital to support solutions at different stages of maturity — from early-stage innovation and ecosystem development to scaling proven technologies and infrastructure.
Accompanying the report are:
- A first-of-its-kind fund flow intelligence dashboard mapping public, private and philanthropic capital flows across China, India, and Southeast Asia (SEA) and impact opportunities
- The Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Asia Case Study Library featuring 50 real-world examples of companies, financial institutions and philanthropies advancing CA&R in respective ways.
- A sectoral deep dive, Building a Climate-Adapted and Resilient Agri-Food System in Southeast Asia, focused on agri-food resilience in SEA – a top priority across the region’s National Adaptation Plans
“Climate adaptation and resilience financing in Asia remains constrained by limited data, fragmented approaches, and uncertainty around where capital can be most effective. We hope this report helps to provide greater clarity on the opportunities and roles different stakeholders can play in advancing solutions across the region. As climate risks intensify, stronger coordination between public, private, and philanthropic capital will be essential to accelerate action,” said Ms. Dawn Chan, CEO, Centre for Impact Investing and Practices.
Rising climate risks, widening financing gap
As a region, Asia is warming at twice the global average. Since 2000, 3.7 billion people in Asia have been affected by climate-related disasters – more than triple that in the rest of the world. These risks are already translating into significant economic and social costs.
By 2030, Asia will account for around 75% of the global CA&R financing gap, and Asian companies are projected to bear around US$336 billion in annual climate costs.
Despite this, annual CA&R financing flows in Asia remain significantly below current funding needs. More than US$200 billion is required annually across the region, yet current flows stand at only around US$19 billion.
Agriculture is among the sectors most significantly affected by climate change. While the sector contributes 9.8% to SEA’s GDP, average annual production growth of key staple food[4] has remained below 1.3% over the past decade. Climate stress could reduce crop yields by as much as 41%, with much of the burden and impact of declining production falling on the region’s 100 million smallholder farmers, many of whom live on less than US$2 a day.
“Impacts of climate risks vary according to crop or livestock, where they are and when the risk is going to be experienced. This determines the necessary strategy required for resilience uplift. ImpactSF uses CGIAR produced scientific data along with AI-based approaches to support investment processes in risk identification and mitigation and impact reporting for investees. This is extremely critical because if risks are ignored, they will eventually impact the financial bottom line of businesses in the agriculture and food sector,” said Dr. Godefroy Grosjean, Co-Lead, CGIAR Hub for Sustainable Finance (ImpactSF).
Barriers to unlocking capital
Several structural barriers constrain capital deployment into CA&R. These include underdeveloped policy and regulatory environments; limited access to data on local climate, risk, and costs; and mismatches between solutions and the funding available.
Many CA&R solutions are also highly context-specific, making them harder to implement at scale and require longer investment periods. This calls for coordinated action across the spectrum of capital.
“While it’s clear that investing for climate adaption and resilience is still at a nascent stage, the critical work of identifying barriers, assessing commerciality and mapping context-specific investment opportunities is a major step forward that can move investors from exploration to tactical implementation. This analysis helps bring greater transparency to where capital is most needed across Asia, and where investable opportunities may be emerging,” said Mr. Norbert Ling, Head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management, APAC, Invesco
From fragmented responses to coordinated action
Promisingly, funder interest is growing. Among 165 Asia funders surveyed by this study, CA&R ranks as the leading impact theme, with 81 funders (49%) already actively investing and 47 (28%) exploring entry into the space. Collectively, these 165 funders represent over US$1 trillion in Annual Funds Managed (AUM).
Translating interest into capital deployment, however, requires addressing key constraints faced by funders. Pipeline challenges are the top concern for both active or interested funders, as well as inactive funders in this space. Macro-level challenges and deal structuring are also key issues for active or interested funders, while main barriers for inactive funders include limited mandate to invest in the space, alongside knowledge and capacity gaps. Addressing these requires a comprehensive approach that strengthens business models, de-risks projects, and builds capacity and data systems.
Seven key building blocks
Recognising the multifaceted needs of the sector, this report sets out a roadmap for scaling CA&R finance in Asia through seven key actions. These include
- Catalysing action
- Embedding climate adaptation as both a value and growth driver
- Strategic capital mobilisation across the spectrum
- Improving decision-making
- Better climate-risk pricing and valuation of resilience
- Impact-linked decision pathways
- Shared data and knowledge infrastructure
- Laying the foundations
- Climate-aligned financial system
- Cross-sector collaboration and delivery for scale
Further details are set out in the appendix.
For more insights, access the report highlights here. The full report and fund flow dashboard will be available from 19 May.
APPENDIX
7 key building blocks for building lasting CA&R at scale
Catalyse Action
1. CA&R as growth engine and value driver. Investing in CA&R for business operations is not only a defensive strategy but can also unlock new markets and improve competitive advantage. Embedding CA&R into BAU and scaling investable solutions today can help build momentum for broader industry and system transformation.
2. Strategic capital mobilisation across the spectrum. Financing CA&R requires leveraging all forms of capital. Blended and innovative finance can help unlock investment, but only when grounded in strong fundamentals. Successful deployment depends on viable business models, robust data, and execution capacity.
Inform Decisions
3. Climate risk pricing and resilience valuation. Climate risks and resilience benefits, including avoided losses and induced economic, environment, and social impacts, remain systematically undervalued today, distorting investment decisions. Embedding avoided losses and broader impacts into pricing and valuation is key to unlocking capital at scale.
4. Clear impact-linked decision pathways. Clear impact pathways are essential to crowd in capital for CA&R. Given contexts across Asia require that solutions that are highly local and diverse, scaling requires credible causal pathways from action and investment to resilience impact, such as those anchored in a Theory of Change (TOC) and supported by standardised frameworks and comparable indicators rather than uniform metrics.
5. Shared data and knowledge foundations. Closing critical data and capacity gaps is essential to improve risk understanding and decision-making in CA&R. However, data cannot exist in siloes – coordinated investment in localised but interoperable data systems will unlock better pipeline development and capital allocation.
Lay Foundations
6. CA&R aligned-financial systems. Financial services are a foundational enabler of resilience across firms and communities, whether by funding CA&R (e.g., expanding access to capital, financing ecosystem services), or building financial resilience (e.g., by enabling risk transfer and building safety nets that are critical to absorb and manage climate shocks).
7. Cross-sector collaboration and delivery for scale. Lasting CA&R outcomes depend on coordinated action across public, private, and community stakeholders. Stronger collaboration mechanisms, whether among governments, philanthropists, investors, or businesses, can reduce fragmentation and enable faster, more effective capital deployment and action at scale.
Methodology
Insights from the report are based on engagement with ~250 stakeholders, including a survey of 165 funders deploying capital into Asia and 105 interviews. Stakeholders interviewed include commercial and philanthropic funders, financial institutions and insurance companies, corporates, ventures, and ecosystem enablers.
The identification and prioritisation of CA&R solutions for Asia involved narrowing down from 1,400+ recognised global climate adaptation and resilience (CA&R) solutions, aligned with Asia’s climate risks and needs, with maladaptive solutions removed at each stage. Each of the 250+ prioritised solutions were assessed for impact potential and commercial viability, leveraging tracked funding data of ~US$100B over the past five years.
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About Centre for Impact Investing and Practices
The Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (“CIIP”) is a non-profit centre based in Singapore. Established in 2022 by Temasek Trust, a steward of philanthropic endowments and gifts, the centre’s mission is to foster impact investing and practices in Asia and beyond. CIIP is the anchor partner for the United Nation Development Programme’s Private Finance for the SDGs, providing Asia investors and businesses with clarity, insights and tools that support their contributions towards achieving the SDGs. Temasek and ABC Impact are CIIP’s strategic partners.
About Temasek
Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, with a net portfolio value of S$434 billion (US$324b, €299b, £250b, RMB2.35t) as at 31 March 2025. Its Purpose “So Every Generation Prospers” guides it to make a difference for today’s and future generations. Temasek seeks to build a resilient and forward-looking portfolio that will deliver sustainable returns over the long term.
It has 13 offices in 9 countries around the world: Beijing, Hanoi, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore in Asia; and Brussels, London, Mexico City, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Washington, DC outside Asia.
About Invesco Ltd.
Invesco Ltd. is one of the world’s leading asset management firms serving clients in more than 120 countries. With US$2.2 trillion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026, we deliver a comprehensive range of investment capabilities across public, private, active, and passive. Our collaborative mindset, breadth of solutions and global scale mean we’re well positioned to help retail and institutional investors rethink challenges and find new possibilities for success. For more information, visit www.invesco.com.
About ImpactSF
The CGIAR Hub for Sustainable Finance (ImpactSF) works to deliver locally relevant evidence & analytics to unlock capital aligned with SDG impacts that enable the food, land and water systems transformation. Hosted by the Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT, ImpactSF builds on CGIAR evidence to deliver data driven solutions that enable financial institutions and investors to de-risk investments through AI-enabled analytics of climate and environmental risks and impacts. As a key technical partner, ImpactSF integrates evidence-based socio-environmental dimensions in all areas of the investment lifecycle, including pipeline development, investment screening & due diligence, investment implementation and post investment monitoring reporting and verification.
Through DaaS, enterprise customers can access drone equipment, trained personnel, mission execution, data collection and project deliverables without purchasing and maintaining a complete in-house drone system. The model extends ZenaTech’s business beyond equipment sales and enables the company to generate recurring service revenue from customers’ operational requirements.
ZenaTech reported revenue of CAD 8.4 million for the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 640% from CAD 1.13 million in the same period of 2025. DaaS contributed approximately CAD 7.8 million, accounting for around 93% of quarterly revenue.
In 2025, the company generated annual revenue of CAD 12.9 million, up 558% from approximately CAD 2 million in 2024. DaaS contributed approximately CAD 10.1 million during its first full year of operations, representing around 78% of total annual revenue.
Acquisitions Support Service Network Expansion
ZenaTech has expanded its DaaS operations through a combination of internal technology development and acquisitions. The acquired businesses bring existing customers, professional teams and local operating capabilities, while ZenaTech gradually introduces drones, automated data collection and AI-supported analytics into selected workflows.
In 2025, the company completed 20 acquisitions, including 19 businesses providing engineering data, facility inspection and related professional services, as well as one enterprise software company.
By June 2026, ZenaTech had completed its 24th DaaS-related acquisition and expanded its services into property cleaning, facility inspection and maintenance.
Through its ZenaDrone subsidiary, ZenaTech has also developed drone products for indoor and outdoor operations. The IQ Quad supports site data collection, engineering imagery and 3D modelling, while the IQ Nano uses barcode and RFID scanning to support inventory records, shelf inspections and indoor data collection.
The company’s reported revenue growth, acquisition activity and DaaS contribution provide investors following the AI and drone sectors with measurable indicators of how its technologies are being integrated into commercial operations and converted into service revenue.
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About ZenaTech
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) is a technology company specialising in AI-powered drones, Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS solutions and related technologies. Through its ZenaDrone subsidiary, the company develops drone products and software for commercial applications including engineering data collection, agriculture, warehouse management, facility inspection and property maintenance. ZenaTech combines its technology capabilities with a growing professional service network to support the adoption of drone-based solutions across a range of operational environments.
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A Defining Milestone for Gene Solutions: SPOT-MAS Multi-Cancer Screening Test Receives U.S. FDA Breakthrough Device Designation
The proposed indications for use describe SPOT-MAS 10 as a qualitative in vitro diagnostic test performed on plasma derived from a single direct-draw venous whole blood specimen. The test analyzes circulating cell-free DNA methylation and fragmentomic signatures using a machine-learning-based algorithm to detect a cancer-associated signal. It is intended for use as an adjunctive screening test in asymptomatic adults aged 40 years and older to assist in detecting cancers within the scope of the assay. These include five common cancers — breast, lung, liver, colorectal and gastric cancers — and five aggressive, less common cancers that currently lack standard screening methods — ovarian, pancreatic, esophageal, endometrial and head & neck cancers.
SPOT-MAS has been developed through years of rigorous scientific research and clinical development. In March 2025, SPOT-MAS became the first multi-cancer screening blood test in Asia to complete a large prospective cohort validation, with the K-DETEK study evaluating more than 9,000 asymptomatic participants and demonstrating strong performance, including high specificity and the ability to identify cancer-associated signals across multiple cancer types.
Since then, SPOT-MAS has been used in more than 100,000 individuals in real-world practice, with consistent performance observed beyond controlled study settings. Real-world data were presented at ESMO Asia 2025 and were featured at ASCO Breakthrough 2026 in Singapore.
The platform is built on a multi-omic approach— integrating genetics, epigenetics, and fragmentomics — together with AI-driven analysis, large-scale prospective validation, growing real-world evidence and focus on cancer types with high clinical relevance in the regions where the test is deployed.
For the United States, Breakthrough Device Designation provides Gene Solutions with a prioritized channel of engagement with the FDA as the company advances its U.S. development and validation plans.
Looking ahead, Gene Solutions will continue to collaborate with academic, clinical, laboratory, commercial and strategic partners to support responsible adoption of SPOT-MAS in accordance with local regulations, clinical guidelines and best practices.
Important Regulatory Notice: SPOT-MAS 10 has received U.S. FDA Breakthrough Device Designation. Breakthrough Device Designation is not FDA approval, clearance or marketing authorization. The device remains subject to applicable FDA regulatory review requirements, and the designation does not guarantee future FDA approval, clearance or authorization.
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St Francis Methodist School International Shares 2023–2024 WACE Outcomes and Student Journeys
Overview of the WACE Curriculum at SFMS
SFMS International is among a small number of institutions in Singapore offering the WACE curriculum and has delivered this programme for over 23 years. The WACE is a recognised senior secondary qualification awarded by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Western Australia. It prepares students for university admission both locally and internationally.
SFMS is also currently the only school in Singapore offering a Senior High Preparatory Pathway (WACE) for students in Years 9–10. This introduces students to the structure and expectations of the curriculum earlier, building familiarity with subject content and assessment formats before progressing to the senior years. Additionally, subject selection in Years 11A and 12A is structured to meet university entry requirements and reflect students’ academic interests.
Academic Outcomes and University Placements
In 2023, 8 out of 12 WACE graduates from SFMS International achieved ATAR scores above 90, meeting the eligibility criteria for universities such as the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The cohort’s top scorer, Wang Dawei, recorded an ATAR of 96.15 and enrolled at NTU to study Business and International Trading. In addition to local placements, graduates were admitted to international universities such as the University of Melbourne and Fudan University in China.
In 2024, 2 out of 8 graduates also attained ATAR scores above 90. The highest scorer, Youn Chae-Won, achieved an ATAR of 95.3. Her university placement is currently pending.
Student Journeys and Holistic Development
Students in the WACE programme at SFMS International engage in both academic and co-curricular activities as part of their overall learning experience. Recent graduates have taken part in service learning, subject specialisation, and personal reflection throughout their time in the pre-university programme.
Youn Chae-Won, the 2024 valedictorian, joined SFMS International from Korea in 2021. Over time, she adjusted to a new academic environment and explored subjects such as accounting, which influenced her interest in finance-related pathways. She also took part in various aspects of school life, including a service learning trip to Bintan in 2023, where students supported local sanitation efforts. Her involvement in both academic and co-curricular settings marked a broad engagement with school life during her time at SFMS.
Andrew Zhuang, who enrolled in SFMS International in 2019, pursued subjects such as Business Management, Accounting, and English as an Additional Language (EALD). Beyond academics, he was involved in community fundraising and joined the same Bintan service trip. He also attended weekly chapel sessions and received support from peers and teachers during a period of health-related absence.
These outcomes reflect the ongoing role of the WACE programme at SFMS International in supporting students through both academic pathways and broader educational experiences. Under the leadership of Principal Mr Lee Hak Boon, the school continues to emphasise academic planning, subject selection, and student wellbeing as part of its overall approach to pre-university education.
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About St Francis Methodist School International
Established in 1960, St Francis Methodist School International (SFMS) is an educational institution in Singapore that offers primary, secondary, and pre-university programmes. The school provides several academic pathways, including the International Baccalaureate (IB), Cambridge IGCSE, and the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE), preparing students for further studies in local and overseas institutions.
