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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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50:52

Paige Roepers On Geospatial Data For Coastal Resilience

Climate Proofers ·

2025/06/03

Climate change is giving the coasts one hell of a beating. Rising oceans and worsening seaborne tempests are chipping away at our shorelines, degrading coastal ecosystems, and putting trillions of dollars of property, infrastructure, and water-based commerce at risk. The fast-changing vulnerability of coastal economies is a nightmare for insurers in particular, which are wrestling with how to model flood and erosion risks given the climate-induced tumult. Ocean Ledger is here to help. In this

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49:58

Laurie Schoeman On Why Adaptation Needs A Seat At The...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/05/27

Who better to star in our 50th episode than Laurie Schoeman? Laurie is a highly respected champion of climate resilience, housing policy, and sustainable investment in the US — with a career that’s taken her from construction projects in San Francisco to the heart of the White House. For two years, she served under President Biden: first, as Senior Advisor for Climate Risk and Resilience, and then as a Senior Housing Policy Advisor. In these roles, she leveraged the power of the Oval Office to

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Jo Kerr & Jonny Casey On Climate-Proofing Scotland

Climate Proofers ·

2025/05/20

Scotland is a beautiful, wild, and dynamic country. It’s also one of many facing a barrage of climate risks that, if left unchecked, threaten to harm its people and hobble its economy over time. Verture is working to prevent this. The Scottish charity — formerly known as Sniffer — leverages cross-sector, cross-community collaborations to build climate resilience up and down the country. They’ve got their work cut out for them. Scotland is dealing with higher winter rainfall, an increasing number of

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43:32

Josh Hacker On The Evolution Of Climate Risk Models

Climate Proofers ·

2025/05/13

What does it really take to model climate risk in a way that businesses and financial institutions can use? In this episode, Josh Hacker — Chief Science Officer at Jupiter Intelligence — joins to talk about how the climate risk modeling discipline has evolved in the eight-or-so years since the company’s founding, and the lessons learnt along the way on the importance of transparency and accountability. He dives into the challenges reconciling clients’ appetite for actionable data with the inherent

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53:46

Sarah Farrell On Financing The "Resilience Continuum"

Climate Proofers ·

2025/05/06

Time is not on our side. Climate risks are here, and are only getting worse. To protect and prepare vulnerable communities, we need finance to rush in at speed and in scale. Impatience Earth, as the name suggests, isn't waiting around to see this done. The UK-based nonprofit provides pro-bono advice to philanthropic funders looking to enhance their climate strategies — and get their money moving now. On today's episode, Sarah Farrell, Climate Philanthropy Advisory Director at Impatience Earth,

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30:44

Washington Insurance Commissioner Kuderer On Her...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/04/29

Commissioner Patty Kuderer has been in office for 104 days. She’s got a lot on her plate. As Washington’s top insurance official, Kuderer is responsible for overseeing the more than 800 insurers in the state and protecting policy holders from unfair practices. She’s also driving her office to address climate risks to the local insurance market and championing legislation that could harden homeowners and whole communities against floods and wildfires. In this episode, she shares how her office is

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48:24

Jyotsna Puri On Rethinking Adaptation Finance

Climate Proofers ·

2025/04/22

Few have insights into the global adaptation finance landscape like Jyotsna “Jo” Puri — economist, climate finance expert, and Director of Policy and Programs at the UN Environment Programme. With a career spanning the Green Climate Fund, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jo offers a rare insider’s look at how multilateral institutions are grappling with climate adaptation — and why so many are falling short. In this episode

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49:56

Susan Crawford On How The US Government Is Failing...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/04/15

The Trump White House is taking a hammer to the federal agencies, programs, and initiatives that promote climate adaptation and resilience. As part of its chaotic effort to shrink the size of government and eliminate any and all climate work by the US government, Trump's team is gutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the country’s premier climate agency, abolishing grants that states and cities use to build resilience against extreme weather events, and even directing

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44:07

Sonam Velani On Why Cities Are The Frontlines Of...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/04/08

Cities are getting hammered by climate shocks. These concrete jungles are highly exposed to extreme weather events and slow-onset climatic changes — from wildfires (Los Angeles) to floods (Nashville, Lagos, Karachi) to heatwaves (Delhi, Houston, Madrid). This exposure is only going to increase. Roughly half the world’s population live in urban areas today, but their share is due to exceed 70% by 2050. Sonam Velani is on a mission to get cities ready for a hotter and wilder world. Sonam is the

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45:30

Theo Bachrach On Championing Corporate Climate...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/04/01

Theo Bachrach is a resilience professional par excellence. Over the last five years, he’s worked for not one, not two, but three organizations with ‘Resilience’ in the title, and helped coordinate a UN-backed campaign that has brought hundreds of companies, cities, and other non-state parties together to harden our world to climate shocks — the Race to Resilience. He joins Climate Proofers to share his professional journey in adaptation-and-resilience-land, discuss the legacy of the Race to

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40:40

Oliver Wing On the Future of Flood Risk Modeling

Climate Proofers ·

2025/03/25

What if we could map every river, every coastline, and every floodplain on Earth — and use that knowledge to build a more climate-resilient future? It sounds ambitious, but this is exactly what UK-based Fathom has set out to do. The flood and climate risk intelligence company recently launched its Global Flood Cat model, capable of modeling all major flood perils — from burst riverbanks to coastal storm surges. Moreover, it can quantify the financial risk of these floods to all kinds of assets. This

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45:35

Carolyn Kousky On Building Resilience Through Insurance

Climate Proofers ·

2025/03/18

Dr. Carolyn Kousky is a true believer in the power of insurance for building climate resilience. So much so that she recently founded Insurance for Good, a new nonprofit dedicated to harnessing insurance for social and environmental resilience. In this episode, Carolyn — who also serves as Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at the Environmental Defense Fund — talks about this new initiative and shares her insights into the evolving role of insurance in climate resilience, disaster

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52:46

Avinash Persaud On Unlocking Development Banks'...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/03/11

Avinash Persaud isn’t afraid to tell the hard truths on adaptation finance. At a conference in Brasilia last month, the Special Advisor on Climate Risks to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) told delegates that trillions of dollars of private money for adaptation were unlikely to materialize, and that attention should be turned instead to maximizing the finance provided by multilateral development banks (MDBs). In today’s episode, Avinash lays out his thinking on scaling

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45:55

Sadie Frank On Supply Chain Risks In A...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/03/04

Supply chains are the "veins of the economy", says Sadie Frank, Co-Founder of N4EA, a startup working to make these more resilient to escalating climate risks. Like veins in the human body, they are essential — but also fragile. In today's episode, Sadie talks about the growing vulnerabilities in global supply chains, and shares how N4EA uses data, predictive analytics, and geospatial intelligence to help businesses anticipate and manage these risks before they spiral out of control. Louie and

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40:58

Stephen Hammer On The New York Climate Exchange

Climate Proofers ·

2025/02/25

New York is a truly world-leading city. Finance, tech, education — the Big Apple has it all, and attracts talent from across the globe because of its well-earned status as the place where You Can Make It. It now aspires to become the global epicenter for climate solutions, too. In this episode Stephen Hammer, CEO of the New York Climate Exchange, talks to Louie about this new cross-sector, multi-stakeholder center— intended to become the preeminent hub for climate mitigation and adaptation R&D in

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34:59

Clare Ballantine & Isona Shibata On Philanthropy’s...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/02/18

How can philanthropy bridge the massive funding gap in climate adaptation? In this episode, Clare Ballantine, Head of the Howden Foundation, and Isona Shibata, Head of International Programs at Ashden, unpack the role of philanthropic capital in building resilience for climate-vulnerable communities in the Global South. They discuss the urgency of funding locally-led adaptation solutions, the power of anticipatory action, and how smart financial innovations — like micro parametric insurance — are

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47:30

David Carlin On Why Climate Disclosures Aren’t Enough

Climate Proofers ·

2025/02/11

Everyone who’s anyone in climate knows David Carlin. David has been at the forefront of climate risk management and disclosure since the first rush of industry- and UN-led initiatives swept across the financial sector in the run-up to COP26. Over many years working with the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), he had a front row seat to how banks and institutional investors wrestled with the implications of climate change on their businesses and the wider economy. Now, he’s leading

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45:51

Chris Goolgasian On Adaptation Stocks & Strategy

Climate Proofers ·

2025/02/04

What makes a company an “adaptation play?” It’s a question Chris Goolgasian, Director of Climate Research and portfolio manager at the $1.2trn investment company Wellington Management, has devoted himself to in recent years. Chris oversees an investment strategy focused on stocks that should thrive as the world works to become more climate resilient — particularly those from companies that are addressing key climate risks: heat, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, water scarcity, and sea level

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46:45

Jorge Gastelumendi On Climate Games, Chief Heat...

Climate Proofers ·

2025/01/28

How can video games drive climate resilience? Could Minecraft and Fortnite teach kids (and adults) about adapting to extreme temperatures and other punishing climate risks? Jorge Gastelumendi, Senior Director at the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center, certainly thinks so. He joins Climate Proofers to talk about the newly renamed center, which has an exciting mission to reach one billion people with resilience solutions. Sounds hard, right? Jorge breaks down the three strategic pillars of

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52:44

Frank Frievalt On America's Wildfire Nightmare

Climate Proofers ·

2025/01/21

While the Los Angeles fires continue to rage, the debate on what should be done — and indeed what can be done — to prepare and protect communities from these kinds of infernos is heating up. The multiple blazes are also highlighting the frightening potential for fire risk to rip through the financial system, wrecking homeowners, insurers, and government budgets in the process. In today's episode, Frank Frievalt, Director of the Wildland-Urban Interface FIRE Institute at Cal Poly, discusses the

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