The Weekly: Alabama Used Five Financing Levers to Scale Resilient Building Standards Across the State
Alabama’s approach to scaling the FORTIFIED standard has become a blueprint nationwide.
Public Infrastructure
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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.
Cities Face $1 Trillion in Deferred Infrastructure Costs. Building Resilience Requires Pricing That Exposure.
Municipal markets overlook the cost of aging infrastructure. New tools can help cities size their reserve funds against their actual exposure.
The Weekly: El Niño Is a Stress Test for America’s Infrastructure. It Can Show Us Where to Invest Next.
There is a 75% chance that El Niño strength will exceed every event on record since 1950.
The Weekly: When A Spark Can Bankrupt a Utility, The Grid Is Now a Wildfire Defense System.
Wildfire season is changing how utilities fortify against wildfires
Physical Risk Only Becomes a Credit Problem When Governments Can't Manage It
Corpus Christi's bond downgrades reveal a governance problem, not just a risk problem
The Weekly: Earnings Calls Are Full of “Resilience” Talk. But Physical Resilience Moves Stock Prices
S&P 500 companies mentioned "resilience" 600 times on earnings calls last quarter. The word is exploding, and it's losing meaning. New research shows only one kind of resilience moves stock prices.
The Weekly: Once Cities Implement a Stormwater Utility, They Don't Stop
Downpours are getting heavier across most of the U.S., and aging drainage systems are struggling to keep up. In response, a fast-growing municipal policy solution is scaling across the country.
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.