Climate Proofers

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 with their own distinctive risks, opportunities, and...

"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 that organizations of all shapes and sizes are maki...

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 into a space they don't understand. This problem ex...

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 events even if we succeed in dramatically cutting fossi...

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. Some have also imposed rules on how so-called "gre...

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's being put to good use. Morgan Richmond at the Clim...

In climate adaptation finance land, there are few experts as productive and well-connected as Dr Nicola Ranger, a director at the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute, the Resilient Planet Finance Lab, and Greening Finance for Nature I...

Climate risks are coming for our coastal cities. It's a threat that demands a full bore response, marshalling technical, financial, and community resources from across disciplines. Eugene Montoya, a Miami native and climate finance expert, talks about ...

Climate adaptation & resilience investments have a public perception problem. Investors struggle to see the opportunities associated with climate-proofing projects, or simply don't know where to start looking for appropriate places to allocate their ca...