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.
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.
How to Sell Flood Infrastructure: Make It a Park
Cities spent decades building pipes and pumps to move water out fast. Hoboken tried absorbing it instead—and cut flooding by 88%.
AI Is Closing the Data Gaps That Have Limited Disaster Prediction for Decades
From wildfire prevention to flash flood forecasting, better data is enabling earlier, more targeted decisions about risk
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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.
Three Examples of How Incremental Change Led to Resilience
Early proof points are what eventually unlock scale, and they almost never look like proof when they begin. We need the compounding of resilience over time, and we need to recognize when the next disaster creates a narrow window for rapid investments in resilience—all at once.
The Weekly: Local Communities Are Taking Wildfire Mitigation Into Their Own Hands
Wildfire-prone communities across the West are no longer waiting for federal dollars to mitigate wildfire risk. As FEMA funding stalls and detection technology gets cheaper, local districts are investing in wildfire-detection sensors, drones, and AI-monitored cameras.
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: 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.
The Weekly: Local Communities Are Taking Wildfire Mitigation Into Their Own Hands
Wildfire-prone communities across the West are no longer waiting for federal dollars to mitigate wildfire risk. As FEMA funding stalls and detection technology gets cheaper, local districts are investing in wildfire-detection sensors, drones, and AI-monitored cameras.