The Weekly: New York’s Flood Sensors Show Where Stormwater Dollars Should Go First
Data from the wettest summer in five years reveals three opportunities to invest in resilience.
Financial systems
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The Weekly: Hurricane Isaias Is a Test of the Gulf Coast’s Bet on Hardened Homes
Florida and Alabama have spent hundreds of millions fortifying homes. Isaias is the first mainland hurricane to test that resilience since 2024.
The Weekly: Resilience Pays for Itself Several Times Over. Communities Are Finding Ways to Capture the Return.
Resilience benefits are often spread so widely that no single payer sees the payoff. New models and policies are starting to close that gap.
The Weekly: Resilience Went Mainstream at Climate Week NYC. Our Team Shared Three Takeaways.
Two years ago, sessions on resilience were hard to find at Climate Week NYC. This year, they were everywhere.
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 Emerging Success Story of States Treating Home Resilience as a Public Investment
New report: How six states are financing property-level resilience improvements.
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: 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 Verdict From The Resilient America Summit: Financing Resilience Is A Coordination Problem.
Three takeaways from the first Resilient America Summit
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 Great Unlock
How public, private, and philanthropic leaders can scale the next chapter of climate resilience. A national call to action prepared for Chicago Climate Week and Aspen Ideas: Climate.
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.