Municipal markets overlook the cost of aging infrastructure. New tools can help cities size their reserve funds against their actual exposure.
There is a 75% chance that El Niño strength will exceed every event on record since 1950.
To address the housing crisis in the U.S., we need a three-part strategy for centering resilience.
Municipal markets overlook the cost of aging infrastructure. New tools can help cities size their reserve funds against their actual exposure.
If we don’t build it right and build it to last, new housing supply won’t solve today’s housing crisis.
For most of the country, in most years, the post-disaster window is not the second-best time to invest in resilience. It is the only time anyone does.
New report: How six states are financing property-level resilience improvements.
There is a 75% chance that El Niño strength will exceed every event on record since 1950.
To address the housing crisis in the U.S., we need a three-part strategy for centering resilience.
A new set of case studies and a policy brief lay out how states are financing property-level resilience improvements that reduce disaster losses, improve housing affordability, and stabilize stressed insurance markets.
Builders have the power to influence how resilient a home rebuild is.
Los Angeles isn't short on ideas or expertise. But, like many communities rebuilding after a disaster, it lacks the connections, systems, and capacity to bring them together at scale.
Wildfire season is changing how utilities fortify against wildfires
S&P 500 companies mentioned "resilience" 600 times on earnings calls last quarter. The word is exploding, and it's losing meaning. New research shows only one kind of resilience moves stock prices.
Downpours are getting heavier across most of the U.S., and aging drainage systems are struggling to keep up. In response, a fast-growing municipal policy solution is scaling across the country.
With fire seasons now roughly two months longer than they were in the 1970s, 2026 could reset the ceiling on wildfire losses again.
Climate change and federal policies are making wildfires more frequent and intense. Migration patterns are increasing the exposure of assets to wildfire threats. And assets that are more vulnerable to wildfires translate into higher costs.
Part II of our Wildfires Briefing explores four categories of opportunity for the private sector: 1) Implementing modern building materials and codes; 2) Technologies for better fire management; 3) New insurance models; and 4) Private financing for forest management.
Several drivers are contributing to the rise in expensive severe convective storms: 1) population growth in high-risk areas; 2) non-resilient physical assets; and 3) rising building premiums.
We need to move beyond asking simply, How do we fund this project? and start asking, What financial risk does this community face, what outcomes could change that trajectory, and how should we invest accordingly?
When benefits tied to investing in resilience can be measured and demonstrated, major new sources of capital become available to help finance resilience.
Bespoke deals are too complex to scale. Broad “green” designations are too vague to measure. A middle route can fund adaptation at the pace climate risk demands.
Resilience projects become finance-ready by doing the early work of proving who benefits, quantifying the value of avoided losses, and building the partnerships that make private capital possible.
