Climate Proofers
Episodes
Will Everill On Making Pests, Invasives & Bio Risk Tech The Next Adaptation Frontier
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pests, invasive species, and biological (PIB) threats are on the rise. Why? You guessed it — climate change. Higher temperatures are exacerbating th...
Mike Williams On Scaling Real Estate Resilience
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the investment case for climate resilience? It's a question asked time and again here at Climate Proofers — and it's an important one. After ...
Ana Mulio Alvarez on COP30's Adaptation Highs & Lows
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
COP30 was billed as the adaptation COP. But did the summit live up to expectations? In this episode, E3G Senior Policy Advisor Ana Mulio Alvarez retur...
Sabrina Bachrach On The Ground At COP30
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amid the heat, humidity, and high political drama of COP30 in Belém, adaptation finance and policy expert Sabrina Bachrach returns to the Climate Pro...
Simon Zadek On Catalyzing The Adaptation Economy
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What policy ideas could help catalyze the adaptation economy? How can markets be coaxed into supporting climate-proofing innovations? And what does a ...
Ben Abraham On The Battle For Adaptation Finance At COP30
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Super Bowl of climate politics is almost upon us. COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference, is about to kick off in Brazil — and expectations are...
Mishal Thadani On The Business of Grid Resilience
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Theresa Hoffmann On Reinventing Insulation For A Warming World
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Hunter Maats On Turning Climate Resilience Into Real Estate Alpha
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Krista Tukiainen On Leveraging AI for Adaptation Finance
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 acc...
David Leathers On Making Workforce Health a Climate Priority
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does climate change mean for America's workforce? In this fourth installment of our New York Climate Week interview series, David Leathers takes...
Mike Gulla On Why Insurance Needs a Makeover for a Changed Climate
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Abby Ross & Joe Rozza On Why Resilience Is the New Bottom Line
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, a...
Climate Week NYC Interviews: Ben DeAngelo
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Louie sits down with Ben DeAngelo, Principal and Founder of Operation Future and former Director of the Office of Climate Adaptation ...
Andrew Lala On Democratizing Weather Intelligence
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*This episode of Climate Proofers is sponsored by Ignitia* Weather intelligence is one of most exciting frontiers in adaptation and resilience tech. B...
Prashant Mupparapu On Enabling Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The intersection of climate and finance is getting crowded, making it tougher for adaptation start-up founders to stand out. Today's interviewee is be...
Andy Love On Cooling The UK: Buildings, Shade, & Heat Resilience
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wellb...
Jake Rascoff & Steven Rothstein On Exposing Climate Risk In The $4 Trillion Muni Bond Market
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where will the climate financial crisis hit first? Is it in corporate earnings? Equity prices? Home values? Sustainability advocacy organization Ceres...
Anjana Agarwal On Adaptation Tech For Utilities
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Ben Andrews On Building An Adaptation Consultancy
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Debbie Hillier On Adaptation Indicators, Finance, & The Bonn Climate Talks
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eleven frantic days of negotiations at the Bonn climate talks this June yielded an important breakthrough: agreement on how to define 100 indicators f...
Alice Hill On Texas Floods, Trump's Anti-Resilience Budget Bill, And 'Climate Realism'
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Jonathan Cook & Jainey Bavishi On The State of Adaptation Post-Biden
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's been 161 days since President Trump's second inauguration. In that time, US climate adaptation policy has been utterly transformed — and not fo...
Katie Walsh On Financing the $86 Billion City Climate Gap
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is placing cities under siege. This week alone, urban sprawls across North America, Europe, and Asia are sweltering under extreme tempe...
Garrett Kephart On Scaling Climate Intelligence Through Spatial Finance
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 paddlin...
Yue (Nina) Chen On Embedding Climate Risk Into Bank Supervision
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ba...
Paige Roepers On Geospatial Data For Coastal Resilience
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is giving the coasts one hell of a beating. Rising oceans and worsening seaborne tempests are chipping away at our shorelines, degradin...
Laurie Schoeman On Why Adaptation Needs A Seat At The Top Table
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who better to star in our 50th episode than Laurie Schoeman? Laurie is a highly respected champion of climate resilience, housing policy, and sustaina...
Jo Kerr & Jonny Casey On Climate-Proofing Scotland
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Josh Hacker On The Evolution Of Climate Risk Models
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sci...
Sarah Farrell On Financing The "Resilience Continuum"
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Kuderer On Her Climate Risk Priorities
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 responsib...
Jyotsna Puri On Rethinking Adaptation Finance
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few have insights into the global adaptation finance landscape like Jyotsna "Jo" Puri — economist, climate finance expert, and Director of Policy an...
Susan Crawford On How The US Government Is Failing Adaptation
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump White House is taking a hammer to the federal agencies, programs, and initiatives that promote climate adaptation and resilience. As part of...
Sonam Velani On Why Cities Are The Frontlines Of Climate Adaptation
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are getting hammered by climate shocks. These concrete jungles are highly exposed to extreme weather events and slow-onset climatic changes —...
Theo Bachrach On Championing Corporate Climate Resilience
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 'R...
Oliver Wing On the Future of Flood Risk Modeling
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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? ...
Carolyn Kousky On Building Resilience Through Insurance
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Go...
Avinash Persaud On Unlocking Development Banks' Potential For Adaptation
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ri...
Sadie Frank On Supply Chain Risks In A Climate-Adjusted World
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 clima...
Stephen Hammer On The New York Climate Exchange
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 it...
Clare Ballantine & Isona Shibata On Philanthropy's Role In Adaptation Finance
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can philanthropy bridge the massive funding gap in climate adaptation? In this episode, Clare Ballantine, Head of the Howden Foundation, and Ison...
David Carlin On Why Climate Disclosures Aren't Enough
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Chris Goolgasian On Adaptation Stocks & Strategy
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a company an "adaptation play?" It's a question Chris Goolgasian, Director of Climate Research and portfolio manager at the $1.2trn investm...
Jorge Gastelumendi On Climate Games, Chief Heat Officers, And Reshaping Resilience
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can video games drive climate resilience? Could Minecraft and Fortnite teach kids (and adults) about adapting to extreme temperatures and other pu...
Frank Frievalt On America's Wildfire Nightmare
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 communiti...
Julia Kumari Drapkin On Crowdsourcing Climate Data
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's one thing all adaptation professionals agree on — we need more climate data. And better climate data. And climate data people can trust. But...
Emilie Mazzacurati On Tailwind Climate's Adaptation Playbook
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Climate adaptation technology isn't getting a lot of love from markets right now. Extreme weather shocks may be on track to inflict some US$560bn or...
The Future of US Climate Adaptation & Resilience Under Trump 2.0
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Climate change" is likely to become taboo under the second Trump administration. The incoming president believes global warming to be a "hoax", and P...
Jonathan Bowers On Building a Firetech Startup
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wildfires are on the rampage across North America. Canada and the US are battling blazes more often and for longer periods. This fall, wildfires have ...
Ana Mulio Alvarez On COP29
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did COP29 advance (or obstruct) the climate adaptation agenda? While the conference produced a controversial new climate finance goal, this had ...
Julie Gorte On Investor Engagement With Adaptation
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investment professionals can't bury their heads in the sand when it comes to climate risks. Extreme weather shocks are inflicting billions in losses t...
Nakita Devlin On The Promise Of Parametric Insurance
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Parametric insurance is all the rage in climate resilience circles. This is a financial product that pays out to policyholders upon a triggering event...
Valkyrie Holmes On Climate InsurTech
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The insurance industry is on the front lines of climate risk. In order to write profitable policies in high-risk zones, carriers need data and insight...
Emma Howard Boyd On The London Climate Resilience Review
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
London has sustained a barrage of climate shocks in recent years – from devastating heat waves to flash flooding and a string of "rain bombs". The m...
Adam Freed On Climate-Proofing Cities
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
City leaders are up to their necks in climate risks. They need help to harden their people and places against floods, storms, and heat waves. Why no...
Michael Jacobs On Accelerating Climate Tech
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are magnets for climate risks. We've designed metropolises that intensify hazards like floods and extreme heat, and have to nurture and scale s...
Alan Leung On Climate Risks To Geopolitics And Security
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is injecting volatility into geopolitics, with worrying implications for international relations and the (already fraying) rules-based ...
Thomas Mortlock On Cat Model Misunderstandings
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Catastrophe (or 'cat') models are essential tools for estimating losses from natural disasters. With the rise of climate risk management as a discipli...
Kathryn Brown On Adapting Wildlife Habitats & The UK Climate Change Committee
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Brown is a true climate adaptation veteran. For the last three years, she's been tackling climate change impacts with The Wildlife Trusts, a f...
Bill Green On Investing In Climate Adaptive Infrastructure
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Green is a veteran infrastructure investor, one who understands that we need to change our approach to building (and financing) the basic facilit...
Kathy Baughman McLeod On Building Climate Resilience For All
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Extreme heat wrecks lives and livelihoods throughout the Global South. Women are especially vulnerable to high temperatures because of an array of phy...
Michael Berkowitz On Capturing the Resilience Dividend
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Berkowitz is spreading the gospel of climate resilience across academic disciplines, communities, and industries. As Executive Director of the...
Jay Koh On The 'Unavoidable Opportunity' Of Adaptation
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are few champions of the adaptation economy with a resume like Jay Koh. The storied investor racked up years in the financial industry before se...
John Robinson On Investing In Adaptation Tech
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Technology is crucial in the effort to prepare for, and protect from, climate risks. However, we're still in the early stages of figuring out how to t...
Maëlis Carraro On Building A Climate Adaptation Venture Fund
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Africa is a magnet for climate risks – from floods to droughts to storms like Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which displaced half a million people in Mala...
Nancy Watkins On Climate Risk And The US Insurance Industry
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US home insurers suffered their worst underwriting loss this century in 2023, as claims came pouring in for storms, floods, wildfires, and more. Infla...
Closing the Adaptation Capital Gap: Adapt Unbound 2024
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In May, climate proofers from across the world gathered in New York for Adapt Unbound USA, a pioneering conference on the emerging adaptation economy...
Kit England on Adaptation at the Local Government Level (and Beyond)
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adaptation planning is taking place at every level of the public realm. While national governments beaver away on country-wide adaptation plans, subna...
Paul Munday on Corporate Adaptation Planning
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"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 slo...
Ujala Qadir on the Climate Bonds Initiative's Resilience Taxonomy
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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-proo...
Seb Tranæus on the climate adaptation technology landscape
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 hott...
Craig Davies on the adaptation-financial regulation nexus
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Financial regulators are no strangers to climate change. Over the last decade, a large number of them have taken steps to enforce mandatory climate di...
Morgan Richmond on tracking adaptation finance flows
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 unders...
Dr Nicola Ranger on nature, adaptation, and the financial sector
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Eugene Montoya on building coastal resiliency
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Climate risks are coming for our coastal cities. It's a threat that demands a full bore response, marshalling technical, financial, and community reso...
Sabrina Nagel on changing attitudes toward adaptation finance
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Climate adaptation & resilience investments have a public perception problem. Investors struggle to see the opportunities associated with climate-proo...