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 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.
Four New Jersey towns are charging property owners for stormwater runoff and using the money to fund flood repairs.
Climate resilience is often framed as a problem of insufficient funding. In reality, it is a problem of how funding is structured and deployed.
