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Resilens is a decision engine for climate adaptation. We help public and private decision-makers turn climate risk into fundable, defensible adaptation plans, so critical places remain liveable and essential services stay functional.
When adaptation managers approach funders with a climate-proofing measure, there's one question they can count on hearing: "What’s the return on this investment?"
It's a question that Oliver Marchand is determined to answer
Oliver is the CEO and co-founder of Resilens, a new start-up that styles itself as a “decision engine” for adaptation — one able to calculate the real-world costs and benefits of adaptation measures. He wants to give adaptation practitioners something they’ve never had access to before: an all-in-one system for transforming climate data into prioritized, fundable investment plans.
Oliver is no newcomer to climate tech. In this episode, he talks us through his previous adventures with Carbon Delta, the climate risk analytics firm he co-founded and sold to MSCI in 2019, and shares his thoughts on what the sector got right — and wrong — over the past decade.
He also offers his thesis on what’s holding back investment in adaptation, and why standardizing “adaptation return” may be essential to unlocking the capital desperately needed to prepare and protect from worsening climate shocks.
If you’re an adaptation practitioner, wannabe adaptech founder, or work in climate finance, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
💡 Climate Proof has also partnered with Resilens to publish a manifesto on why adaptation needs a new decision logic. Read it HERE
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We talk about:
👉 How Resilens has created a “decision engine” for adaptation ROI
👉 Oliver’s reflections on climate tech, and its successes and failures over the last decade
👉 How the ‘adaptation manager’ has emerged as a new job profile across cities, municipalities, and corporations
👉 How Resilens approaches the valuation of biodiversity, maladaptation risk, and other spillover effects from adaptation that others don’t take into account
👉 Why Oliver believes we need a global standard for ‘adaptation return’
Thanks for listening!
Louie Woodall
Editor
