Insurers play a key role in sending risk signals, sometimes in a form other than price. These risk experts need to lead by reframing the “insurance crisis” as the “insurability crisis,” and leveraging a time-tested safety standard approach to align a complex ecosystem of competing interests.
Homeowners who built their homes to IBHS certified FORTIFIED standards saved thousands after Hurricane Sally hit in 2020. The FORTIFIED building standard is saving homes from Category 3 storm damage, and also saving homeowners and insurance companies costs on annual insurance premiums and claims.
Municipal leaders have an opportunity to lead their communities to a resilient future and mitigate flood risk. A case study from Algonquin, IL highlights resiliency investments that have fundamentally transformed how flooding affects the community and have yielded significant cost savings.
The Resiliency Ecosystem spans various industries, infrastructure categories, political groups, and geographies. The Epicenter–in partnership with our parent organization, The Resiliency Company–seeks to convene leaders from across this ecosystem to tell a big story about resiliency and make the business case for investing in it.
In addition to publishing regular resiliency content to The Epicenter, we're exploring strategies to foster deeper engagement among participants in this ecosystem, including a Resiliency Events Calendar, Resiliency Podcast Playlist, and other forthcoming engagement initiatives.
Resiliency Events Calendar
This calendar curates events happening across the U.S. (both in-person and virtually) to advance the resiliency conversation. The calendar is community-sourced, please submit events for the calendar here.
To subscribe to this calendar via Google calendar (so these events embed in your calendar), use this public URL.
To access the calendar from other (non-Google) applications, use this URL.
This post explains how to subscribe to public calendars via Google.
Resiliency Resources from the Ecosystem
See below for resources The Epicenter has begun curating from the wider resiliency ecosystem, as go-to sources for understanding and making the business case for adaptation and resiliency.
If you’re looking for landscape level analysis of adaptation investments…
Climate Project Explorer | The website allows interested parties to explore project documents and policies available across all the multilateral climate funds utilizing a google search like interface.
Climate Handbook| A visual history of the changing climate and how it will impact the future world from Probable Futures.
Climate Proofers| Podcast series that provides the latest news in the world of adaptation/resilience through interviews with experts in the field.
Moving Day | A newsletter about the intersections among climate, thriving lives, and power, by Susan Crawford.
TL; DR Resiliency and Adaption| Work-in-progress podcast playlist from The Epicenter editorial team that brings together voices from the field discussing various aspects of adaptation and resilience work (feedback and suggestions welcome!)