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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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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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45:29

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 compa...

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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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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 r...

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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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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...

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52:45

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 doll...

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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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45:54

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, Sad...

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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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40:57

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 f...

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34:58

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 buildi...

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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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47:29

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 ...

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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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45:50

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 investmen...

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46:44

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 Resilienc...

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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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