The Weekly: Kansas City Came Within 4 Inches of Disaster in 1993. Its New Levees Just Finished Years Early.
Kansas City’s levees finished on schedule, years ahead of the original estimate.
The ‘Resilience Shopping List’ Making Home Wildfire Upgrades Affordable
In Altadena, a new approach is helping to shrink the ‘resilience delta’ between standard and more resilient building codes.
Alabama Paid for Stronger Roofs. Hurricane Claims Fell Up to 74%.
Alabama used five financing levers to get insurers and homeowners to pay for FORTIFIED roofs.
Cities Face $1 Trillion in Deferred Infrastructure Costs. Building Resilience Requires Pricing That Exposure.
Municipal markets overlook the cost of aging infrastructure. New tools can help cities size their reserve funds against their actual exposure.
To Solve America’s Housing Crisis, We Need to Center Resilience
If we don’t build it right and build it to last, new housing supply won’t solve today’s housing crisis.
Latest
The Weekly: Kansas City Came Within 4 Inches of Disaster in 1993. Its New Levees Just Finished Years Early.
Kansas City’s levees finished on schedule, years ahead of the original estimate.
The Weekly: Voters Back Resilience When the Project and the Price Are Clear
From a $600 million storm-resilience bond in St. Petersburg to drainage renewals in coastal Louisiana, Tuesday’s election results show strong local support for well-defined adaptation investments.
The Weekly: New York’s Flood Sensors Show Where Stormwater Dollars Should Go First
Data from the wettest summer in five years reveals three opportunities to invest in resilience.
The Weekly: Alabama Used Five Financing Levers to Scale Resilient Building Standards Across the State
Alabama’s approach to scaling the FORTIFIED standard has become a blueprint nationwide.
The Weekly: Hurricane Isaias Is a Test of the Gulf Coast’s Bet on Hardened Homes
Florida and Alabama have spent hundreds of millions fortifying homes. Isaias is the first mainland hurricane to test that resilience since 2024.
The Weekly: Resilience Pays for Itself Several Times Over. Communities Are Finding Ways to Capture the Return.
Resilience benefits are often spread so widely that no single payer sees the payoff. New models and policies are starting to close that gap.
The Weekly: Resilience Went Mainstream at Climate Week NYC. Our Team Shared Three Takeaways.
Two years ago, sessions on resilience were hard to find at Climate Week NYC. This year, they were everywhere.
The Weekly: El Niño Is a Stress Test for America’s Infrastructure. It Can Show Us Where to Invest Next.
There is a 75% chance that El Niño strength will exceed every event on record since 1950.
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: New York’s Flood Sensors Show Where Stormwater Dollars Should Go First
Data from the wettest summer in five years reveals three opportunities to invest in resilience.
The Weekly: Resilience Pays for Itself Several Times Over. Communities Are Finding Ways to Capture the Return.
Resilience benefits are often spread so widely that no single payer sees the payoff. New models and policies are starting to close that gap.
The Weekly: Resilience Went Mainstream at Climate Week NYC. Our Team Shared Three Takeaways.
Two years ago, sessions on resilience were hard to find at Climate Week NYC. This year, they were everywhere.
The Weekly: The Tools to Finance Resilience Already Exist. To Unlock Scale, We Need Coordination.
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?