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.
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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 Missing Piece in LA's Wildfire Recovery Is Coordination
Three lessons from the Rebuilding with Resilience Summit
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.
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.
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.
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.