Nancy Watkins On Climate Risk And The US Insurance Industry
US home insurers suffered their worst underwriting loss this century in 2023, as claims came pouring in for storms, floods, wildfires, and more. Inflation and the crowding of high-risk areas contribut...
30 Heinä 202449min
Closing the Adaptation Capital Gap: Adapt Unbound 2024
In May, climate proofers from across the world gathered in New York for Adapt Unbound USA, a pioneering conference on the emerging adaptation economy. Experts from tech, finance, and policy held forth...
23 Heinä 202445min
Kit England on Adaptation at the Local Government Level (and Beyond)
Adaptation planning is taking place at every level of the public realm. While national governments beaver away on country-wide adaptation plans, subnational and local governments are getting to grips ...
16 Heinä 202441min
Paul Munday on Corporate Adaptation Planning
"Proper planning prevents poor performance." It's a cheesy axiom, but one that happens to be correct. With extreme weather events on the rise, and slow onset climate risks on the march, it makes sense...
11 Heinä 202433min
Ujala Qadir on the Climate Bonds Initiative's Resilience Taxonomy
It's a mantra all climate proofers are probably tired of repeating: adaptation needs are enormous, we need much more capital to flow into climate-proofing solutions, but investors are leery of jumping...
18 Kesä 202452min
Seb Tranæus on the climate adaptation technology landscape
Climate adaptation technology is the hot investment theme that has in-the-know investors salivating. After all, we know the world is going to get hotter and witness ever-increasing extreme weather eve...
11 Kesä 202429min
Craig Davies on the adaptation-financial regulation nexus
Financial regulators are no strangers to climate change. Over the last decade, a large number of them have taken steps to enforce mandatory climate disclosures for companies and financial institutions...
4 Kesä 202434min
Morgan Richmond on tracking adaptation finance flows
A trillion here, a billion there... climate finance is a study in big numbers, but it's important to look beyond the top-line figures to really understand where the money's all going – and whether it'...
28 Touko 202437min
