Thomas Mortlock On Cat Model Misunderstandings
Catastrophe (or 'cat') models are essential tools for estimating losses from natural disasters. With the rise of climate risk management as a discipline in its own right, efforts are underway to harne...
1 Okt 202448min
Kathryn Brown On Adapting Wildlife Habitats & The UK Climate Change Committee
Kathryn Brown is a true climate adaptation veteran. For the last three years, she's been tackling climate change impacts with The Wildlife Trusts, a federation of UK charities focused on making a posi...
24 Sep 202441min
Bill Green On Investing In Climate Adaptive Infrastructure
Bill Green is a veteran infrastructure investor, one who understands that we need to change our approach to building (and financing) the basic facilities and systems that undergird our daily lives in ...
17 Sep 202436min
Kathy Baughman McLeod On Building Climate Resilience For All
Extreme heat wrecks lives and livelihoods throughout the Global South. Women are especially vulnerable to high temperatures because of an array of physiological, cultural, and economic factors – but a...
10 Sep 202435min
Michael Berkowitz On Capturing the Resilience Dividend
Michael Berkowitz is spreading the gospel of climate resilience across academic disciplines, communities, and industries. As Executive Director of the Climate Resilience Academy at the University of M...
3 Sep 202447min
Jay Koh On The 'Unavoidable Opportunity' Of Adaptation
There are few champions of the adaptation economy with a resume like Jay Koh. The storied investor racked up years in the financial industry before serving as Chief Investment Strategist at what is no...
27 Aug 202448min
John Robinson On Investing In Adaptation Tech
Technology is crucial in the effort to prepare for, and protect from, climate risks. However, we're still in the early stages of figuring out how to think about climate adaptation technology (or 'CAT'...
20 Aug 202444min
Maëlis Carraro On Building A Climate Adaptation Venture Fund
Africa is a magnet for climate risks – from floods to droughts to storms like Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which displaced half a million people in Malawi last year. However, the continent's vulnerability...
13 Aug 202440min
