The Second Best Time to Invest in Resilience Is Right After a Disaster Hits
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.
The Second Best Time to Invest in Resilience Is Right After a Disaster Hits
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.
The Emerging Success Story of States Treating Home Resilience as a Public Investment
New report: How six states are financing property-level resilience improvements.
The Missing Piece in LA's Wildfire Recovery Is Coordination
Three lessons from the Rebuilding with Resilience Summit
Physical Risk Only Becomes a Credit Problem When Governments Can't Manage It
Corpus Christi's bond downgrades reveal a governance problem, not just a risk problem
Latest
The Weekly: States' Resilience Investments Are Easing Housing Costs and Steadying Insurance Markets
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.
The Weekly: After the Marshall Fire, Builders Played a Central Role in Shaping Resilient Rebuilds
Builders have the power to influence how resilient a home rebuild is.
The Weekly: LA Has the Leadership and Capital to Rebuild with Resilience. It's Missing the System to Connect Them.
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.
The Weekly: When A Spark Can Bankrupt a Utility, The Grid Is Now a Wildfire Defense System.
Wildfire season is changing how utilities fortify against wildfires
The Weekly: Earnings Calls Are Full of “Resilience” Talk. But Physical Resilience Moves Stock Prices
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.
The Weekly: Once Cities Implement a Stormwater Utility, They Don't Stop
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.
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?
The Weekly: When Governments Prove Resilience Pays Off, Insurers, Investors, and Developers Start Funding It
When benefits tied to investing in resilience can be measured and demonstrated, major new sources of capital become available to help finance resilience.
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: 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?
The Weekly: When Governments Prove Resilience Pays Off, Insurers, Investors, and Developers Start Funding It
When benefits tied to investing in resilience can be measured and demonstrated, major new sources of capital become available to help finance resilience.
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.