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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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Maëlis Carraro On Building A Climate Adaptation...

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2024/08/13

Africa is a magnet for climate risks – from floods to droughts to storms like Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which displaced half a million people in Malawi last year. However, the continent’s vulnerability has also made it a hotbed of climate adaptation. Thousands are joining (or starting) businesses to climate-proof the continent – and investors are taking note. In this week’s episode, Louie is joined by Maëlis Carraro, managing partner at The Catalyst Fund, a pre-seed VC fund and accelerator that

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49:13

Nancy Watkins On Climate Risk And The US Insurance...

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2024/07/30

US home insurers suffered their worst underwriting loss this century in 2023, as claims came pouring in for storms, floods, wildfires, and more. Inflation and the crowding of high-risk areas contributed to the red ink, but extreme weather events were also a factor. These are due to become more frequent and severe because of climate change. Nancy Watkins specializes in climate resilience, insurtech and catastrophic property risk at Milliman, the actuarial consultancy. She joins Climate Proofers to

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45:41

Closing the Adaptation Capital Gap: Adapt Unbound 2024

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2024/07/23

In May, climate proofers from across the world gathered in New York for Adapt Unbound USA, a pioneering conference on the emerging adaptation economy. Experts from tech, finance, and policy held forth on topics ranging from how to prepare cities for climate change to building industry-wide collaborations. Louie was tapped to moderate the last panel of the day on closing the adaptation capital gap, with adaptation veterans Emilie Mazzacurati (Tailwind Climate), Maëlis Carraro (Catalyst Fund), Anish

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Kit England on Adaptation at the Local Government...

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2024/07/16

Adaptation planning is taking place at every level of the public realm. While national governments beaver away on country-wide adaptation plans, subnational and local governments are getting to grips with their own distinctive risks, opportunities, and adaptation needs. Kit England is no stranger to local adaptation planning. Currently the senior climate resilience and adaptation specialist at Paul Watkiss Associates, Kit has over ten years’ experience in adaptation planning and implementation, most

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33:04

Paul Munday on Corporate Adaptation Planning

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2024/07/11

“Proper planning prevents poor performance.” It’s a cheesy axiom, but one that happens to be correct. With extreme weather events on the rise, and slow onset climate risks on the march, it makes sense that organizations of all shapes and sizes are making plans in response. S& Global Rating’s Dr Paul Munday has been at the forefront of research into company-level climate adaptation plans, and recently co-authored an in-depth report on the current state of play. This found that just 21% of companies

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52:15

Ujala Qadir on the Climate Bonds Initiative's...

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2024/06/18

It’s a mantra all climate proofers are probably tired of repeating: adaptation needs are enormous, we need much more capital to flow into climate-proofing solutions, but investors are leery of jumping into a space they don’t understand. This problem explains the current mania for adaptation and resilience taxonomies. These are systems for classifying activities and investments that support climate-proofing efforts. Nation-states have produced taxonomies that touch on adaptation in the past, but this

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Seb Tranæus on the climate adaptation technology...

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2024/06/11

Climate adaptation technology is the hot investment theme that has in-the-know investors salivating. After all, we know the world is going to get hotter and witness ever-increasing extreme weather events even if we succeed in dramatically cutting fossil fuel emissions. This means products and services that protect against climate impacts will be in high demand. However, being new, the climate adaptation technology space faces challenges. For one, plenty in the venture market are yet to get their

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Craig Davies on the adaptation-financial regulation...

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2024/06/04

Financial regulators are no strangers to climate change. Over the last decade, a large number of them have taken steps to enforce mandatory climate disclosures for companies and financial institutions. Some have also imposed rules on how so-called "green funds" should be labelled, and what investments they should be allowed to hold. However, adaptation and resilience have arguably been underrepresented in the blizzard of paper coming out of regulators' offices. Craig Davies, CEO at the climate

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37:35

Morgan Richmond on tracking adaptation finance flows

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2024/05/28

A trillion here, a billion there... climate finance is a study in big numbers, but it's important to look beyond the top-line figures to really understand where the money's all going – and whether it's being put to good use. Morgan Richmond at the Climate Policy Initiative, an independent nonprofit, is a seasoned pro when it comes to tracking climate finance flows. She heads up the Initiative's adaptation finance agenda, and recently put together its State and Trends in Climate Adaptation Finance

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50:20

Dr Nicola Ranger on nature, adaptation, and the...

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2024/05/21

In climate adaptation finance land, there are few experts as productive and well-connected as Dr Nicola Ranger, a director at the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute, the Resilient Planet Finance Lab, and Greening Finance for Nature Initiative. We get into the nitty-gritty of the projects she's working on right now and go over the data, education, and technical needs of financial institutions when it comes to embedding climate resilience in their lending and investing activities

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38:24

Eugene Montoya on building coastal resiliency

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2024/05/14

Climate risks are coming for our coastal cities. It's a threat that demands a full bore response, marshalling technical, financial, and community resources from across disciplines. Eugene Montoya, a Miami native and climate finance expert, talks about how his career led to coastal resilience advocacy. He describes his work with the Waterfront Alliance, a non-profit engaging stakeholders on the use and protection of coastal regions, how waterfront resilience projects are and can be funded, and

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39:26

Sabrina Nagel on changing attitudes toward adaptation...

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2024/05/07

Climate adaptation & resilience investments have a public perception problem. Investors struggle to see the opportunities associated with climate-proofing projects, or simply don't know where to start looking for appropriate places to allocate their capital. Sabrina Nagel, Adaptation & Resilience Finance Lead with the UN High-Level Climate Champions and Global Policy & Finance Advisor at the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, talks about shifting the financial industry's

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