When extreme weather disrupts communities, small businesses often wind up being the first responders and first casualties. Investing in small business resilience can translate into fewer closures, less unemployment, faster recovery, and stronger local spending after disasters strike.
Two trends are colliding in state finance offices: Emergency, or “rainy day,” funds are shrinking at the exact moment climate-related revenue losses are mounting.
States are seeing their emergency reserves shrink for the first time since the Great Recession. The path forward is a new, two-pronged pro-growth, pro-resilience model that expands the state’s economic base while simultaneously modernizing the financial tools used to protect it.
The Epicenter’s Insurance & Resiliency Research page seeks to expose readers to the financial, social, and scientific underpinnings of how and why insurance can be such an effective tool to align interests, incentivize behaviors, and ensure fiscal stability.
Reinforcing the urgency for action, the following reports, white papers, and studies span a wide spectrum of relevant content and can serve as the basis for a well-informed and well-researched proposal of your own.
Leading reports and research that set the stage for a new era of community-based climate risk action.
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