The Great Unlock
How public, private, and philanthropic leaders can scale the next chapter of climate resilience. A national call to action prepared for Chicago Climate Week and Aspen Ideas: Climate.
The Great Unlock
How public, private, and philanthropic leaders can scale the next chapter of climate resilience. A national call to action prepared for Chicago Climate Week and Aspen Ideas: Climate.
Financing the Missing Asset: Why Municipal Bonds Have Struggled to Finance Climate 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.
New Jersey's Stormwater Utilities Are a Funding Source for Flood Infrastructure
Four New Jersey towns are charging property owners for stormwater runoff and using the money to fund flood repairs.
Insurance markets don't collapse overnight. They follow a sequence you can see coming.
Insurance markets don't become uninsurable overnight. But the transition from insurable to uninsurable is the final stage of a sequence that can take years or decades to play out.
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The Weekly: Financing the Missing Asset: Why Municipal Bonds Have Struggled to Finance Climate 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.
The Weekly: Extreme Heat Is Straining the Grid. Redesigning How We Build Can Ease the Pressure.
The drivers that make extreme heat so severe were all in play over Independence Day weekend: More people live in areas exposed to extreme heat, existing infrastructure is vulnerable to extreme heat, and cooling is expensive and not universally accessible.
The Weekly: Capital Doesn't Fund Resilience Projects Until Someone Proves Who Benefits
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.
The Weekly: The Warning Signs of Uninsurability Are Visible Before the Tipping Point
Insurance markets don't become uninsurable overnight. The transition from insurable to uninsurable is the final stage of a sequence that can take years or decades to play out.
The Weekly: Cities Are Cutting Billions in Sewer Compliance Costs by Letting Nature Do the Work
By adopting green infrastructure in place of some gray infrastructure, Kansas City reduced the total costs of managing its combined sewer system through 2040 by over $2 billion.
The Weekly: U.S. Data Shows Resilience Investments Pay Back $1.86 Per Dollar
The economic losses from disasters that are not covered by insurance continue to grow, but resilience projects are generating measurable positive returns.
The Weekly: The Blended Capital Stack That Could Move Resilience Finance at Scale
If today’s funding landscape resembles disconnected wells, then climate resilience requires something closer to a watershed—where resources are intentionally pooled, directed, and circulated across geographies, sectors, and time horizons.
The Weekly: Hail and Tornadoes Are Now the Most Expensive Insured Peril in America
From June through August, warming temperatures and atmospheric moisture combine to produce the hail, tornadoes, and derechos that are now responsible for more cumulative insured losses than tropical cyclones.
Hazard briefings
The Weekly: Why This Wildfire Season is Already Breaking Records
With fire seasons now roughly two months longer than they were in the 1970s, 2026 could reset the ceiling on wildfire losses again.
Wildfires: The Drivers Putting People and Assets At Risk
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.
Wildfires: Opportunities For the Private Sector
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.
The Weekly: The Rising Costs of Severe Convective Storms
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.
Public finance
The Weekly: Financing the Missing Asset: Why Municipal Bonds Have Struggled to Finance Climate 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.
The Weekly: Capital Doesn't Fund Resilience Projects Until Someone Proves Who Benefits
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.
The Weekly: U.S. Data Shows Resilience Investments Pay Back $1.86 Per Dollar
The economic losses from disasters that are not covered by insurance continue to grow, but resilience projects are generating measurable positive returns.
The Weekly: The Blended Capital Stack That Could Move Resilience Finance at Scale
If today’s funding landscape resembles disconnected wells, then climate resilience requires something closer to a watershed—where resources are intentionally pooled, directed, and circulated across geographies, sectors, and time horizons.