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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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.
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.
The Weekly: The Warning Signs of Uninsurability Are Visible Before the Tipping Point
Insurance markets don't become uninsurable overnight. The transition from insurable to uninsurable is the final stage of a sequence that can take years or decades to play out.
Insurance Markets Don't Collapse Overnight
Insurance markets don't become uninsurable overnight. But the transition from insurable to uninsurable is the final stage of a sequence that can take years or decades to play out.
The Weekly: U.S. Data Shows Resilience Investments Pay Back $1.86 Per Dollar
The economic losses from disasters that are not covered by insurance continue to grow, but resilience projects are generating measurable positive returns.
The Weekly: The Blended Capital Stack That Could Move Resilience Finance at Scale
If today’s funding landscape resembles disconnected wells, then climate resilience requires something closer to a watershed—where resources are intentionally pooled, directed, and circulated across geographies, sectors, and time horizons.
Funding Climate Resilience is a Coordination Problem, Not a Capital Problem
Climate resilience is often framed as a problem of insufficient funding. In reality, it is a problem of how funding is structured and deployed.
The Weekly: Climate Migration and the Resilience Belt
Extreme weather events and a changing climate are reshaping long-term housing affordability across America. The result is a migration pattern that would have shocked demographers a decade ago: people are leaving the Sun Belt and heading to the Rust Belt.
Rhode Island Offers a Blueprint for Financing Coastal Climate Resilience
Over the last 15 years, Rhode Island has seen cataclysmic inland flooding, tornadoes, and rapidly rising sea levels wearing away at its coast. But the state plans to be a safer, more stable place to live in 50 years.
The Weekly: When Rainy Day Funds Run Dry
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.
Beyond the Rainy-Day Fund: A New Model for a Fiscally Stressed Nation
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.