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Jul 10, 2025

Grid Crunch Looms as Trump's 'Beautiful Bill' Undermines Resilience

Grid Crunch Looms as Trump's 'Beautiful Bill' Undermines Resilience

Experts warn of a less reliable, more expensive, and more fragile energy future

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Jun 19, 2025

Extreme Heat Gets a Price Tag

Extreme Heat Gets a Price Tag

New tools aim to make the economic cost of extreme heat impossible to ignore

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Jun 12, 2025

How Do You Measure Adaptation? UN Diplomats Try to Agree

How Do You Measure Adaptation? UN Diplomats Try to Agree

Negotiators are meeting in Bonn to winnow 490 adaptation indicators down to 100 and bring clarity to the Global Goal on Adaptation

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Jun 5, 2025

Inside the Geospatial AI Boom Reshaping Climate Risk Analysis

Inside the Geospatial AI Boom Reshaping Climate Risk Analysis

Startups and tech behemoths are battling to turn satellite images into actionable climate risk intelligence — and dominate a booming sector

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May 22, 2025

Are We Building The Wrong Adaptation Tech?

Are We Building The Wrong Adaptation Tech?

As billions flow into climate risk software and analytics, some start-up leaders argue the sector is neglecting real-world solutions

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May 16, 2025

Not-Quite-Unbounded Optimism In New York

Not-Quite-Unbounded Optimism In New York

At the Adapt Unbound conference in New York City, hope for the adaptation economy was tempered by a healthy dose of realism

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May 8, 2025

Resilience Rebrand? Trump’s Disaster Strategy Shifts Power, Shrinks Support

Resilience Rebrand? Trump’s Disaster Strategy Shifts Power, Shrinks Support

New executive order pushes climate preparedness onto underfunded states, as federal dollars and disaster expertise vanish fast

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Apr 24, 2025

Wildfires Disrupt Earnings Across S&P 500, From Insurance to Energy Drinks

Wildfires Disrupt Earnings Across S&P 500, From Insurance to Energy Drinks

LA blazes spark financial fallout in unexpected corners of corporate America, revealing the growing operational risks of climate extremes

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Apr 17, 2025

Adaptation Finance is Having its 'Don’t Look Away' Moment

Adaptation Finance is Having its 'Don’t Look Away' Moment

As the world charges beyond Paris Agreement warming targets, investors are waking up to a once-overlooked corner of the climate economy

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Apr 10, 2025

Climate Language Fades From NAIC Agenda, But Resilience Efforts Persist

Climate Language Fades From NAIC Agenda, But Resilience Efforts Persist

US insurance standard-setter eases public stance on climate even as technical work on disaster risk continues

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Mar 27, 2025

Federal Retreat on Wetlands Sets Off Alarms Over Future Floods

Federal Retreat on Wetlands Sets Off Alarms Over Future Floods

EPA move could strip protections from 90 million acres of wetlands, opening flood-prone lands to development.

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Mar 13, 2025

Adaptation Funds Hit Growing Pains

Adaptation Funds Hit Growing Pains

BlackRock, Invesco, and others make slow progress on high-profile investment vehicles

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Mar 6, 2025

Trade War Threatens US Climate Readiness

Trade War Threatens US Climate Readiness

Trump’s tariffs could make rebuilding after disasters pricier, slow infrastructure upgrades, and destabilize electricity supply

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Feb 20, 2025

How the EU’s Sustainable Taxonomy Reboot Could Drive Climate-Proofing Efforts

How the EU’s Sustainable Taxonomy Reboot Could Drive Climate-Proofing Efforts

Recommended updates to green classification system could ease identification of adaptation activities and prompt greater investment

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Feb 13, 2025

Trump-Musk Assault on NOAA Risks Upending Climate Data Industry

Trump-Musk Assault on NOAA Risks Upending Climate Data Industry

Climate tech leaders warn gutting NOAA could cripple innovation and disrupt markets

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Feb 6, 2025

Trump’s USAID Purge Puts Global Adaptation Finance in Freefall

Trump’s USAID Purge Puts Global Adaptation Finance in Freefall

Large companies, NGOs, and startups all feel the sting of frozen funds that may never be restored

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Jan 23, 2025

Climate Risks Ignored: What Trump’s Executive Order Repeals Mean for America’s Financial Stability

Climate Risks Ignored: What Trump’s Executive Order Repeals Mean for America’s Financial Stability

Reversing Biden’s push to integrate climate risk across the federal government and financial system could rebound on the Trump administration

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Jan 16, 2025

LA Wildfires Push California’s Insurance Market to the Brink

LA Wildfires Push California’s Insurance Market to the Brink

Infernos could reshape coverage in the Golden State, and force a reckoning on pricing climate risk

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Jan 9, 2025

Hurricanes Dominate Q4 Earnings Calls as $500 Billion Storm Season Rattles Corporate America

Hurricanes Dominate Q4 Earnings Calls as $500 Billion Storm Season Rattles Corporate America

Impacts (and opportunities) from Hurricanes Helene, Milton, Debby, and Beryl were laid out by many of America's top firms last quarter

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Dec 12, 2024

Mind the Gaps: Tailwind’s New Playbook Aims to Plug Adaptation’s Capital, Demand, and Ecosystem Holes

Mind the Gaps: Tailwind’s New Playbook Aims to Plug Adaptation’s Capital, Demand, and Ecosystem Holes

The advisory and investment firm reports a shocking lack of financing for adaptation and resilience innovations

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Dec 5, 2024

Seawalls with a Twist: Can 'Hybrids' Bring a Better Balance to Coastal Defense?

Seawalls with a Twist: Can 'Hybrids' Bring a Better Balance to Coastal Defense?

'Hybrid' coastal infrastructure that blends natural and artificial solutions can bring myriad benefits to coastal communities, but navigating complex regulations is a challenge

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Nov 21, 2024

Adaptation Plan Talks Fell Apart at COP29. What Happened?

Adaptation Plan Talks Fell Apart at COP29. What Happened?

The National Adaptation Plan assessment was caught up in a broader conflict over a new climate finance goal, delaying much-need guidance and support for countries working on their climate-proofing strategies

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Nov 14, 2024

Adaptation Fights for its Place at the “Finance COP”

Adaptation Fights for its Place at the “Finance COP”

What current negotiations over the New Collective Quantified Goal could mean for countries' climate-proofing efforts

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Nov 7, 2024

Trump’s Victory Imperils America’s Climate Defenses

Trump’s Victory Imperils America’s Climate Defenses

What Trump 2.0 could mean for US climate adaptation and resilience

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Oct 24, 2024

New Wave of Climate Insurers Tackles Disaster Risk with Data

New Wave of Climate Insurers Tackles Disaster Risk with Data

InsurTech startups use parametric insurance model to offer policyholders fast payouts when climate shocks strike

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