Aid to small island states is falling faster than aid to almost anyone else, at the exact moment the sea is not.

Development assistance is in its third straight year of decline, the cuts landing hardest on the places with the least room to absorb them, while the share of global climate finance actually reaching these countries has never risen above a rounding error. The RESI Initiative, the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative at ODI Global, exists to make that indefensible in public and impossible to dispute in private.

Behind it sits half a million individual data points covering 2000 to 2026, drawn from sovereign debt and debt service, adaptation and resilience finance flows, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), and climate-attributed loss and damage, much of it from territories that global datasets skip entirely. We went and got the numbers and made them comparable across places that have almost never been measured on the same terms. What they show is one thing repeatedly: vulnerability does not predict allocation.

Our annual State of SIDS report is now digital first, a full-screen reading experience built for people who work inside documents: save your place, annotate as you read, keep private notes against any passage, build a shelf of the research you actually use, and send a colleague a finding at the exact paragraph where it lives.

Lab turns the same evidence into something you can interrogate rather than simply be shown. An interactive globe holds every small island state in one field of view, and selecting a territory opens the full series beneath it: debt service against revenue, finance received against need, loss and damage against emissions never produced. Change the comparison, change the years, follow one country or hold forty against each other, and take the result with you.

Climate Blueprint returns all of it to the people inside it, a documentary series produced with the generous support of our partners, following those on the front line of sustainability.

Built for ministers and delegations arriving at COP31 with a finance case to make, the institutions deciding where the money goes, the researchers and peer organisations who need the working data rather than the summary, and the journalists holding all of it to account. Free, sourced, citable, and open to reuse. And built by the ODI Global research, data, editorial, and production teams who kept this record when no one else was keeping it.