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Climate Proofers

Join Louie Woodall, editor of Climate Proof, for round ups of the latest news on climate adaptation and resilience finance, tech, and policy and interviews with key "climate proofers" - experts working at the cutting edge of adaptation finance.

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38:21

Mishal Thadani On The Business of Grid Resilience

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2025/10/28

There's no two ways about it: the US power grid is in poor shape. Wildfires, floods, and hurricanes continue to harry electric utilities and take down grid infrastructure, all while the country is rushing frantically to build out additional capacity to meet the energy demands of the AI craze. How can power providers expand and build resilience against extreme weather shocks at the same time — without blowing the bank? Getting access to better data and risk modeling would be a good start. Rhizome is

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39:56

Theresa Hoffmann On Reinventing Insulation For A...

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2025/10/21

Old-school insulation is no match for our climate-adjusted world. With temperatures rising, we need a new wave of materials and technologies to meet the moment. Enter NANOPLUME, a start-up working on super-insulating, super-thin, and super-light materials using bio-aerogels — free from petrochemicals and 100% biocompatible (meaning they don’t harm those living around them). Theresa Hoffmann, CEO at NANOPLUME, joins the pod to share the magic of bio-aerogels, and explain how they can transform the

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21:19

Hunter Maats On Turning Climate Resilience Into Real...

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2025/10/15

Could understanding the value of resilience be the route to riches in a climate-changed world? Hunter Maats is betting his career on it. In this final episode of our New York Climate Week interview series, the CEO of Resilience Investments — a real estate asset manager — digs into the climate and affordability factors causing people (and capital) to flee the Sunbelt for the Great Lakes, and what this means for US housing markets. He also lays out the case for forward-looking, climate-informed

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19:25

Krista Tukiainen On Leveraging AI for Adaptation Finance

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2025/10/14

At New York Climate Week, two letters were heard again and again: AI. It’s the world’s hottest technology, with humongous potential to augment and accelerate a whole host of climate-positive actions. No wonder it was popular among the panelists and networkers crisscrossing Manhattan last month. One proponent of AI in the climate space is today’s guest, Krista Tukiainen, the Co-Founder of ClimateAligned — an AI-powered start-up that’s democratizing sustainability data and climate assessments at a

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19:58

David Leathers On Making Workforce Health a Climate...

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2025/10/10

What does climate change mean for America's workforce? In this fourth installment of our New York Climate Week interview series, David Leathers takes the mic to explain why employers need to treat climate risk as a health and productivity issue — not just an environmental one. As Program Director of the National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health, David is helping companies connect the dots between extreme heat, worker well-being, and business performance. But as he explains, employers still

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39:52

Mike Gulla On Why Insurance Needs a Makeover for a...

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2025/10/09

Welcome to the third edition of our Climate Week NYC interview series! Today, we have something for all the finance- and tech-heads among you. In this episode, Louie sits down with Michael (Mike) Gulla, CEO and Co-Founder of Adaptive Insurance, to discuss how his company is bringing power outage insurance payouts to small businesses — fast. Mike shares his insights from two decades in the insurance industry and explains why grid reliability is rapidly becoming a first-order financial risk for

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31:26

Abby Ross & Joe Rozza On Why Resilience Is the New...

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2025/10/08

For the next installment of our New York Climate Week interview series we have a double-header: Abby Ross, Founder & CEO of The Resiliency Company, and Joe Rozza, Chief Sustainability Officer at Ryan Companies. Together, they share their reflections on Climate Week and the evolution of “resilience” as a theme with the corporate and investor crowd. Then, they unpack their collaboration on the new Commercial Real Estate Playbook — a first-of-its-kind, industry-driven blueprint for integrating

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17:13

Climate Week NYC Interviews: Ben DeAngelo

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2025/10/07

In this episode, Louie sits down with Ben DeAngelo, Principal and Founder of Operation Future and former Director of the Office of Climate Adaptation and Sustainability at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Fresh from launching his new consultancy, Ben reflects on his decades-long federal career, as well as key milestones in the climate fight — from helping craft the landmark 2009 Endangerment Finding to coordinating the EPA’s first adaptation strategy. He shares his fresh perspective

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01:05:06

Andrew Lala On Democratizing Weather Intelligence

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2025/09/30

*This episode of Climate Proofers is sponsored by Ignitia* Weather intelligence is one of most exciting frontiers in adaptation and resilience tech. But market solutions rub up against an uncomfortable paradox — the people who need weather intelligence the most are often those least able to access it. It’s a tension that today’s guest, Andrew Lala, is very familiar with. As an international development and climate tech veteran with on-the-ground experience in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria, Andrew

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51:49

Prashant Mupparapu On Enabling Climate-Resilient...

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2025/09/23

The intersection of climate and finance is getting crowded, making it tougher for adaptation start-up founders to stand out. Today’s interviewee is betting there’s room for a fresh offering targeting a particularly complex branch of the financial system: infrastructure. Prashant Mupparapu, the founder of InfraSure, is building a platform to help infrastructure investors, owners, and their insurers navigate the rising costs and uncertainty associated with climate risk. Drawing on a 20-year career in

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40:16

Andy Love On Cooling The UK: Buildings, Shade, & Heat...

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2025/09/16

We spend most of our time in the built environment. If it’s not designed with climate change in mind, then we all stand to lose. Our health, our wellbeing, our productivity — all can suffer if we’re confined to spaces that can’t handle higher temperatures. Today’s guest is working on multiple fronts to make the built environment more climate resilient. Andy Love is the Co-Founder of the sustainability consultancy Love Design Studio and community interest company Shade the UK. Through these

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50:07

Jake Rascoff & Steven Rothstein On Exposing Climate...

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2025/09/09

Where will the climate financial crisis hit first? Is it in corporate earnings? Equity prices? Home values? Sustainability advocacy organization Ceres sees the storm breaking in the US$4trn municipal bond market, where cities and local governments raise cash to finance everything from new infrastructure to public transit systems. In this episode of Climate Proofers, Steven Rothstein and Jake Rascoff from Ceres raise the climate alarm on this oft-forgotten corner of the financial system and make the

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35:03

Anjana Agarwal On Adaptation Tech For Utilities

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2025/09/02

It’s hard work being a start-up founder. Harder still in the climate adaptation space. First off, you’ve got the challenge of explaining to would-be clients and investors what climate adaptation actually is. Then you have to figure out what form of language moves them from curious onlookers to engaged participants. To help deal with these obstacles, founders are on the hunt for “go-to-market Sherpas” — professionals who can guide them from the “promising idea” phase to the “commercial juggernaut”

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40:20

Ben Andrews On Building An Adaptation Consultancy

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2025/07/22

An awkward thing about the company Ben Andrews founded is that its name is a little out-of-date. Adapt40 is the bespoke adaptation consultancy he set up in 2021, which is today engaged in projects all over the world: from Dartmoor in the UK to the islands of the Eastern Caribbean. The ‘40’ in ‘Adapt40’ comes from 2040: the year in which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted human-induced global warming would breach 1.5°C. That forecast was made back in 2018. Now, scientists believe

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47:36

Debbie Hillier On Adaptation Indicators, Finance, &...

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2025/07/15

Eleven frantic days of negotiations at the Bonn climate talks this June yielded an important breakthrough: agreement on how to define 100 indicators for measuring global progress on adaptation. Reaching consensus was by no means easy. Adaptation is complex. After all, climate risks manifest in many, many ways and affect economic sectors, geographies, and populations differently. Political squabbles between countries also threatened to derail the process. Developing nations want indicators to track

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52:03

Alice Hill On Texas Floods, Trump's Anti-Resilience...

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2025/07/08

For most climate-conscious folks, the world is a little more scary than it was back in 2015 when the Paris Agreement was signed. Ok, maybe a lot more scary. With a climate-denier in the White House, destructive wars raging in Europe and the Middle East, and the scaling back of emissions targets by rich countries, there’s lots for climate policy wonks — not to mention the rest of us — to be nervous about. Perhaps a change in strategy is needed. A different way to press home the importance of climate

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33:04

Jonathan Cook & Jainey Bavishi On The State of...

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2025/07/01

It’s been 161 days since President Trump’s second inauguration. In that time, US climate adaptation policy has been utterly transformed — and not for the better. Today’s episode — recorded at the recent Adapt Unbound 2025 conference in New York — unpacks how the Trumpian crusade against climate science, overseas aid, and the federal government writ large is undermining US — and global — climate resilience. Jonathan Cook, formerly Senior Resilience and Adaptation Advisor at USAID, and Jainey Bavishi,

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43:38

Katie Walsh On Financing the $86 Billion City Climate...

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2025/06/24

Climate change is placing cities under siege. This week alone, urban sprawls across North America, Europe, and Asia are sweltering under extreme temperatures and bracing for heavy storms and flood-bringing rains. They need cold, hard cash to build up their defenses. But data from CDP — the OG environmental disclosure platform — shows a US$86bn funding shortfall for climate-resilient infrastructure. How can this gap be closed? And how can improved data help unlock capital for adaptation at the city

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37:14

Garrett Kephart On Scaling Climate Intelligence...

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2025/06/17

What does it take to build a cutting-edge climate strategy firm? For Garrett Kephart, CEO and Co-Founder of Earth Finance, years of experience paddling through the Canadian wilderness and trekking the mountains of the Western US came in handy. As a seasoned outdoorsman, Kephart learned the importance of adapting to changing environments and making decisions under pressure — lessons he’s transferred over to his work building a top climate adaptation and transition strategy company. In this episode,

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44:18

Yue (Nina) Chen On Embedding Climate Risk Into Bank...

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2025/06/10

There are few things more devastating to a country’s economy than a full-blown financial crisis. In the US, the memory of the near-implosion of the banking industry in 2008-2009 is seared into the minds of policymakers. It may be hard to recall just how calamitous that event was with fifteen years distance — but at its nadir the US unemployment rate surged to 10%, and economic output shrank 4.3%. No wonder regulators are preoccupied with avoiding a repeat. One potential vector for a future crisis is

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