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A reminder that this is the last newsletter of 2025! Thanks again to all of you for reading and supporting us this year.
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For better and for worse, 2025 was a big year for climate adaptation.
Monumental extreme weather events crystallized the human, economic, and financial costs of a hotter, wilder world. Policy upheavals in Washington and Brussels changed the public-private balance on climate spending and preparedness virtually overnight. And headline names in finance and big business raised funds and set up new practices to advance the cause of climate protection and preparedness.
In this end-of-year edition of Climate Proof, we list our top ten adaptation turning points of 2025, and how they transformed the tech, policy, and finance dynamics around this most urgent of priorities.
But we haven’t got a monopoly on wisdom. That’s why we’re asking you to share your top adaptation turning points — and to vote on which of ours you agree with. We’ll share the findings in the new year. Scroll to the bottom to fill in the survey!
Understanding the past is the key to solving the problems of the future. We hope this recap helps you take stock of where climate adaptation stands today, and get ready to shape the agenda in the year to come.
