Anjana Agarwal On Adaptation Tech For Utilities
It's hard work being a start-up founder. Harder still in the climate adaptation space. First off, you've got the challenge of explaining to would-be clients and investors what climate adaptation actua...
2 Sep 202535min
Ben Andrews On Building An Adaptation Consultancy
An awkward thing about the company Ben Andrews founded is that its name is a little out-of-date. Adapt40 is the bespoke adaptation consultancy he set up in 2021, which is today engaged in projects all...
22 Jul 202540min
Debbie Hillier On Adaptation Indicators, Finance, & The Bonn Climate Talks
Eleven frantic days of negotiations at the Bonn climate talks this June yielded an important breakthrough: agreement on how to define 100 indicators for measuring global progress on adaptation. Reachi...
15 Jul 202547min
Alice Hill On Texas Floods, Trump's Anti-Resilience Budget Bill, And 'Climate Realism'
For most climate-conscious folks, the world is a little more scary than it was back in 2015 when the Paris Agreement was signed. Ok, maybe a lot more scary. With a climate-denier in the White House, d...
8 Jul 202552min
Jonathan Cook & Jainey Bavishi On The State of Adaptation Post-Biden
It's been 161 days since President Trump's second inauguration. In that time, US climate adaptation policy has been utterly transformed — and not for the better. Today's episode — recorded at the rece...
1 Jul 202533min
Katie Walsh On Financing the $86 Billion City Climate Gap
Climate change is placing cities under siege. This week alone, urban sprawls across North America, Europe, and Asia are sweltering under extreme temperatures and bracing for heavy storms and flood-bri...
24 Jun 202543min
Garrett Kephart On Scaling Climate Intelligence Through Spatial Finance
What does it take to build a cutting-edge climate strategy firm? For Garrett Kephart, CEO and Co-Founder of Earth Finance, years of experience paddling through the Canadian wilderness and trekking the...
17 Jun 202537min
Yue (Nina) Chen On Embedding Climate Risk Into Bank Supervision
There are few things more devastating to a country's economy than a full-blown financial crisis. In the US, the memory of the near-implosion of the banking industry in 2008-2009 is seared into the min...
10 Jun 202544min
