Resilience Projects
Every Climate Resilience Project Starts With Wanting To Make A Lasting Impact.
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Climate Resilience Consulting provides insight into preventing the avoidable and managing the unpreventable in the era of climate change. Our projects allow leaders to Create Resilient Choices during our engagement and beyond.
We work with you to Grow and prioritize your resources, enhance your investments, & build resilient institutions.
STRATEGY
CRC’s strategy work focuses on equitable resilience success through transformative policy change, infrastructure improvements, and vibrant partnerships. Over a 15 years ago, we created one of the world’s first resilience strategies, and we lead advisory groups, offer training, and perform research for strategy success.
iMPLEMENTATION
CRC specializes in supporting communities and institutions to turn their plans for resilience into successful outcomes. With expertise in project finance, action planning, and governance we provide training, one-to-one coaching, and engagement and collaboration, building support to turn resilience ideas into reality.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
CRC helps to tackle critical climate challenges by delivering innovative solutions and actionable insights. Our work identifies and addresses emerging climate risks, equipping organizations with the tools needed to adapt and thrive, and simplifying complex concepts to empower stakeholders and drive action.
Resilience Strategy
Our founder Joyce Coffee established one of America’s first climate adaptation strategies for the City of Chicago in 2008, and since then, we have been on the leading edge of crafting actionable resilience strategies. Our strategies lead with solutions that create social equity and focus on the fundamentals of resilience-building: assessing climate risk in terms of hazards, vulnerability and exposure; addressing asset-level climate risks; and building community climate resilience. Our strategy work focuses on resilience success that saves lives and improves livelihoods through transformative policy change, prioritized soft and hard infrastructure improvements, and vibrant and reciprocal partnerships. We convene, facilitate, lead advisory groups, write, and raise money for strategy success.
US Climate Alliance
CRC is contracted with the UN Foundation to support the US Climate Alliance member states in building climate resilience. Following the launch of the new Governor's’ Resilience Playbook, we worked with state resilience leaders on federal funding to drive resilience implementation, equity-based solutions, and resilience metrics. Subsequently, we were retained to interpret the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) guidelines for State leader’s use, a living guide of state government extreme heat mitigation and adaptation best practices, and leading a cohort of member states through a series of workshops to build resilience metrics literacy.
Transportation Research Board
CRC is a subcontractor to WSP and the communications lead for Managed Retreat to Address Extreme Weather, Natural Hazards, and Climate Impacts, developing a managed retreat framework and guide for state departments of transportation to address extreme weather, natural hazards, and climate impacts that consider equity, land use, and community needs.
Previously as a sub to WSP, we provided resilience acumen to the National Cooperative Highway Research Program’s national summit, enhancing climate resilience and social equity throughout their resilience guide aimed at State Departments of Transportation.
Willis Towers Watson
CRC was a founding member of WTW’s Climate & Resilience Strategic Advisory focused on insurance solutions for local government, affordable housing, and real estate resilience.
Among other collaborative projects, CRC supported a western state’s efforts to overcome barriers in long-term contracts to enhance wildfire risk mitigation. We examined traditional and alternative financial solutions that might stabilize the value chain, foster economic development, increase renewable energy and job creation in rural areas.
Cemex
CRC assisted global construction materials company CEMEX to evolve its "Patrimonio Hoy" solution to create community resilience while continuing to meet the housing needs of vulnerable families in urban areas by combining sustainable building construction with a savings program to improve communities and families’ quality of life. Interior and exterior building modifications, along with community awareness raising help Patrimonio Hoy participants stay ahead of change climate impacts.
American Flood Coalition
CRC created state-to-local government technical assistance case study resources in support of AFC’s www.stateresilience.org. In order to make sure the flow of flood-related funding is reaching communities with greatest need, this project aimed to help state leaders across the US create technical assistance assets and structure flood resilience programs that develop local project pipelines. This work emerged out of our ongoing strategic advisory to AFC.
US Environmental Protection Agency
CRC is the prime contractor for the USEPA’s Disaster Resilient Communities Blanket Purchase Agreement. Task orders include Campus RainWorks at an Historically Black College and University, Recovery and Resiliency Partnership Project in Eatonville, FL, and Equitable Resilience Builder, enhancing a national tool to foster active and inclusive community engagement in collaboration with communities in the Northeast, Southeast, and Great Lakes. We also led related equitable resilience-building training for government officials and indicator creation, selection, and utilization protocols.
William Penn Foundation
CRC created a rapid climate risk assessment tool to help the foundation assess climate justice, vulnerability, and resilience opportunities in the Philadelphia region. We also helped to analyze the foundation’s current green infrastructure, school, and art grant portfolio, identifying opportunities for further climate justice and climate resilience. We developed an equitable resilience report, practitioner guide, and case studies of the foundation’s resilience impact.
Metropolitan Planning Council
· CRC worked with Daylight to examine finance options for stormwater management in the Calumet region that connects Chicagoland to the newest National Park, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. This follows on related work supporting strategies to increase green infrastructure elements in the City of Chicago Department of Fleet and Facilities Management resilience strategy and leading community engagement for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s Southside Stormwater Management Plan.
Hospital Support Organization
Information forthcoming in 2025
Resilience Implementation
Communities and corporations face critical challenges in turning their plans for resilience into actionable outcomes. These include disconnects between decision makers and communities, misalignment of mainstream projects with climate resilience needs, short-term government priorities versus long-term climate impacts, and the disparity between equitable solutions and available funding. We address these gaps by fostering collaboration within and between decision makers and communities, developing policies and action plans, and building strong partnerships that support the effective implementation of resilience strategies.
Enterprise Community Partners
CRC is Enterprise’s resilience subject matter expert for HUD and FEMA’s Pre-Disaster Housing Planning Initiative, aiming to find better solutions for planning and executing post-disaster housing, and to move from short-term sheltering programs to more sustainable housing solutions following a disaster. As part of this work, CRC is supporting efforts in Missouri to improve state capacity to manage housing operations and administer housing programs, including through action prioritization, task force operations and disaster housing planning.
US Environmental Protection Agency
CRC was the lead contractor for the USEPA’s Community Change Equitable Resilience Technical Assistance (CCERTA) in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Puerto Rico and USVI, and Midwest and Mountains super-regions.
CRC’s team, including 24 small businesses, supported 26 communities to develop project ideas, conceptual designs, community engagement, budgets, government and other partner relationships and grant proposals. Our team created over 210 renderings and maps working on over 50 sites to lay the foundations of resilience hubs, green infrastructure areas, mobility and residential resilience initiatives.
US Department of Housing and urban development
As subcontractor to Enterprise Community Partners and IEM, CRC created local government workshops for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Climate Communities Initiative Technical Assistance Program, including those related to social equity, community and stakeholder engagement, and implementation. We also provided direct technical assistance to HUD clients including Youngstown, OH, College Station, TX and Gary, IN on climate resilience-related projects including extreme heat adaptation and resilience.
ECT Great Lakes Nearshore Engineering and Design
CRC led core team and community engagement efforts to develop nature-based solutions that welcome environmental justice communities into natural spaces in rural and urban areas of Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin and Illinois. Services included facilitating in-person and virtual meetings, conducting community asset mapping, designing interpretive signage for natural areas, and creating a toolkit to prevent green gentrification. The toolkit also addressed improving physical and mental health, highlighting cultural history, and engaging youth through trauma-informed approaches.
Sustainable Cities Network
CRC facilitated the creation of the Sustainable Cities Network Strategic Plan including leading focus groups and steering committee workshops to further the network as a vehicle for communities in and around Phoenix, Arizona to share knowledge and coordinate efforts to understand and solve sustainability problems. The work follows on our contributions to the Urban Resilience to Extremes Strategic Research Network.
NOAA/Climate Resilience Fund
Through mixed methods research and advisory group facilitation, CRC co-led the development of Ready-to-Fund Resilience (RFR) resources with the American Society of Adaptation Professionals, including a technical document, toolkit, and local government training. RFR describes “how” local government leads and partners can design more fundable projects by pulling specific policy levers, establishing key partnerships, using innovative accounting practices, inverting power structures, and rethinking and redesigning internal processes. This project became a part of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit Steps to Resilience framework.
US Environmental Protection Agency
CRC is a prime contractor for the USEPA’s Office of Community Revitalization Blanket Purchase Agreement.
As part of this, we are working with Smart Growth America to develop and facilitate the Sustainable Communities Accelerator Network. Through 2024-25, this network will provide interactive training for city government practitioners and community-based organizations seeking to implement smart growth and sustainability plans across the U.S.
Western Project-Heat
Working through the US Climate Alliance, CRC partnered with Governor’s Offices, including the senior climate advisor, emergency management, health, housing, utility, and county leaders, to form a statewide extreme heat messaging group. Collaborating with the National Weather Service and regional leaders, CRC conducted research, developed materials, and facilitated meetings to enhance Governor’s office extreme heat communication and activation strategies.
Cook County/CIS
Information Forthcoming in 2025
Resilience Thought Leadership
We specialize in pioneering thought leadership about critical climate challenges that delivers innovative solutions and actionable insights. Our work focuses on identifying and addressing emerging climate risks, equipping communities and organizations with the knowledge and tools needed to adapt and thrive, and simplifying complex concepts to empower stakeholders and drive meaningful action.
National Mortgage Provider
CRC partnered with a leading national mortgage provider to conduct research into the most effective and equitable ways to communicate climate risks to its customers.
Subsequently, CRC was retained to develop educational content around climate hazards to help home buyers, owners and renters to understand key climate risks to their homes and families. We focused on actions to prepare for, respond to, and recover from climate hazards such as flooding, wildfires, and storms. The content was designed to be accessible to families living in disadvantaged communities, who may have limited resources.
Rockefeller Foundation
Co-leading a Bellagio convening with the Institute for Sustainable Communities, CRC gathered credit rating, municipal bond, and federal funding experts to create a Blueprint for Action to Finance Urban Resilience, which bolstered national and international resilience by recommending financial services industry policies, procedures, and funding streams.
Subsequently, we informed the Resilience Brokers Programme and the Global Transformation Roundtable as invited participants at Bellagio convenings.
The David & Lucile Packard foundation
CRC collaborated with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Dr. Susanne Moser Research and Consulting to update the landmark 2017 report on the state of U.S. climate adaptation, Rising to the Challenge, Together. The 2024 report provides a strategic framework to guide philanthropic investments in scaling climate resilience efforts. Drawing on research, interviews, and expert insights, the report outlines transformative actions and principles for philanthropy to drive impactful, long-term resilience-building initiatives through targeted funding and collaboration.
The World Bank
CRC co-created a Market Trends and Investor Landscape Analysis for a Global Resilience Investment Fund with Four Twenty Seven, performing an investor survey and investigating innovative debt and equity investment tools for natural hazard, infrastructure, and small and medium-sized enterprise resilience investments.
Environmental Defense Fund
CRC considered finance options for Louisiana’s coastal restoration and protection, which will require $1B a year for 50 or more years. We identified funding and finance strategies that could support Louisiana’s natural resource restoration and protection projects. To make it feasible to implement we also explored gaps and opportunities in governance, institutional, socio-political and fiscal foundations that are required to support finance flows. The work was in collaboration with Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition.
National Weather Service/NOAA
CRC led the nation’s Extreme Heat Behavior Health Study, a part of National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), to improve extreme heat messaging to prevent extreme heat morbidity and mortality, especially among vulnerable populations. We investigated how people perceive personal risk related to heat on the human body, what information they use to make decisions, and how location, experience, and other factors impact them. To increase equitable outcomes, we recommended institutional engagement and change to protect workers and residents.
Kresge Foundation
The "Rising to the Challenge, Together" report critically assesses the U.S. climate adaptation field, identifying a significant gap between the scale of climate challenges and current efforts to address them. It emphasizes that the root causes of climate change, environmental injustice, and racial inequity are interconnected, advocating for rapid expansion and increased sophistication in adaptation strategies that prioritize marginalized communities. The report offers sector-specific recommendations to accelerate and scale up adaptation efforts, aiming for an equitable and resilient future. CRC has led follow on work in 2019, 2022 and 2024.
University of Pennsylvania
CRC authored a chapter in Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation, a practical guide that provides communities, policymakers, and practitioners with strategies to address coastal climate challenges through equitable and sustainable approaches. Our chapter “Adapt | Prepare | Retreat, a Tale of Two Cities,” explores social-ecological vulnerability and economic and political factors through a critical analysis of Miami Beach, Florida and Buras, Louisiana.
US Climate Alliance
Working with USCA, CRC is supporting the creation of a climate land use policy guide, a comprehensive resource to support governors and other USCA members in implementing equitable and effective land use policies to address climate goals. The project includes conducting a literature review, policy analysis, and stakeholder dialogues to identify gaps, themes, and recommendations in state-level land use practices. Training sessions with supporting materials will ensure effective implementation and alignment with climate and equity priorities.
National Reports
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What would a strong, mature adaptation field look like, how can it be built on a bedrock of social equity and what would it take to build it? To help answer these questions, The Kresge Foundation—one of the leading philanthropies supporting climate adaptation in the US—commissioned CRC to lead an assessment of the state of the climate field.
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Losses due to weather-related events have increased nearly ten-fold over the last 40 years. To combat spiraling losses from climate impacts, an estimated USD 200 billion globally will soon be required annually. CRC led the technical advisory that designed a set of principles for evaluating climate adaptation and resilience investments.
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This report presents recommendations for how state governments can develop climate-resilience financial systems that help local communities invest in protecting residents, businesses, public infrastructure, private property, and natural resources from climate-driven stresses and shocks.
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Prepared for National Weather Service. Top recommendations:
Emphasize actions to improve health outcomes
Overcome messaging barriers to those at greatest risk
Tailor specific messaging in terms of location, severity, language
Expand the network of trusted intermediaries disseminating messages to include, medical professionals, social workers, and faith leaders
Issue heat-related communication sooner
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We are in persistent pursuit of ways to move climate resilience from concept to action. One gap we perceive: a lack of information on how to finance and fund resilience projects. In order for plans to be implemented, cities and utilities need money. In order for financiers to invest, they need bankable projects. This report aims to increase the number of resilience projects that improve lives and livelihoods for America.
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CRC is an invited contributor to the nationwide Resilience21 initiative influencing the Biden presidency. We brought a particular emphasis on social equity and resilience finance. R21 focuses on the social compact, government institutions, public health, physical infrastructure, and natural environment. We continue to take the pulse.
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Affordable housing is fundamental to resilient communities. Working with a national advisory board, Enterprise Community Partners and the Institute for Building Technology and Safety we created a funding and finance guide to help affordable housing developers and owners locate resources for resilience measures that protect residents. Through the Keep Safe Miami process, the City of Miami identified additional funding to shore up multifamily low and moderate income housing resilience.
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Report out from a session at the 2024 National Adaptation Forum exploring Trends & Examples of Transformative Adaptation. A part of a bi-annual stock take of the US Adaptation Field.
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We were invited contributors to this volume, co-authoring the chapter on Climate Resilience: The Next Frontier for Community Development. Here
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We were invited by Arthur D. Little to author the hopeful TAKING ACTION ON EXTREME HEAT Appendix in this volume, including strategic and technology solutions.
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Based on our long-standing relationship with resilience leadership at the Urban Land Institute and the National League of Cities, and with the US Green Business Council, we led their annual Sustainability Summit, facilitating crucial conversations with elected and appointed city leaders about how to use data and metrics to build resilience, especially given data implications on social equity
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We were invited to chair Urban Land Institute’s advisory panel for Miami Beach Florida, investigating the City’s vanguard Stormwater Management and Climate Adaptation work. Leading twelve expert panelists alongside ULI, we provided recommendations on opportunities for green and blue infrastructure as well as regulatory, finance, and communications strategies, presenting an action plan to the city’s Mayor and Commissioners.
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Working with practitioners at Enterprise Community Partners, we developed an infrastructure platform to increase federal support for city resilience, co-creating a policy document for 100 Resilient Cities pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. We emphasized a national infrastructure bank, modernized methods of cost benefit analysis, resilient infrastructure rating metrics and agency coordination.
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With the American Flood Coalition, we researched and wrote case studies of State-to-municipal government technical assistance programs that aim to increase local flood resilience projects. Other jurisdictions can learn from these cases as they work to create the climate resilience project pipeline and build priority projects.
Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program
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We conceived of, initiated, invited participants too and led a first-of-its kind collaboration with corporate sustainability leaders headquartered in the City of Chicago. From McDonalds and MillerCoors to Baxter, Abbot and ArcelorMittal, we set up a friendly competitive atmosphere to push corporate Chicago to be their sustainability best on behalf of the City of Chicago and with leadership from Edelman.
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In answer to the frequent refrain from inspired City leaders “but how do we pay for it?!” Innovation Network for Communities and CRC identified eight strategies leading cities are using to pay for large-scale climate-resilience projects, mostly to address sea level rise and flooding. These strategies amount to an initial approach for deciding who will pay what and how city governments will generate the needed revenue.
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We were an invited contributor to the National Institute of Building Sciences Multi-Hazard Mitigation Council (NIBS) Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (CFIRE) committee. As a group of national building, finance and resilience experts, we aimed to add motivate action on the interest generated by NIBS’ study Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves which demonstrates that pre-disaster mitigation activities save society much more than they cost, at a minimum generating a 6:1 benefit cost ratio.
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With support from the Kresge Foundation, we held the core workshop at the National Adaptation Forum, to ascertain the current state of the field, profile examples of transformative action, identify examples of transformational adaptation with social equity at the center and engender commitments for resilience field leaders to enact critical actions in the next two years.
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Our report offers guidance about navigating climate-action priorities through the gauntlet of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis. Recommendations include: Act to prepare communities for climate change; Build on residents’ behavior changes; Maximize job expansion, public health improvement and social equity.
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We created a resilience workshop for the Center for Planning Excellence, helping the nonprofit to fundraise for the work and using innovative facilitation techniques to engage participants in identifying resilience assets, gaps, and a set of near-term actions that will serve to catalyze a shift in both thought and practice toward proactive resilience-building. Let’s talk about Climate Resilience, see here.
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As New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were finalizing the Regional Plan Association (RPA) Forth Regional Plan, we mined creative ideas from finance industry leaders to create the framework for an Adaptation and Resilience Trust Fund to create implementation pathways for governance and funding that increase the region’s coastal adaptation to climate change.
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Racial and spatial segregation generates uneven exposure to flood risks and worsens economic and health consequences for BIPOC communities. We developed an integrated set of decision-making tools and resources to center racial justice in urban adaptation. Report and tool available.
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We explore social-ecological vulnerability and economic and political factors through a critical analysis of Miami Beach, Florida and Buras, Louisiana.
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In 2020, 22 weather events across the U.S caused $95 billion in cumulative damages, shattering previous records. States must move swiftly to build their resilience to these and other climate impacts. In doing so, they can save billions of dollars and make America’s communities more vibrant, healthy and prosperous.
An update to the 2018 version, the 2021 Governors’ Climate Resilience Playbook outlines 12 foundational steps to set and achieve an effective state-level climate resilience agenda.
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With the American Society of Adaptation Professionals. Walks users through ten characteristics to integrate into climate resilience projects to ensure they're ready to receive the funding and finance. Co-created, along with a Technical Guide, by the American Society of Adaptation Professionals. Included in the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, and its “Steps to Resilience” planning framework. Made possible in part by a NOAA cooperative agreement with Climate Resilience Fund.
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CRC co-led an effort to engage climate resilience leaders in a stock-taking of the Purpose, People, Practice and Pillars that make up the adaptation field. Resulting insights about the state of the field:
Necessary expertise & skilled workforce; •Clarity on good/best practices and tools, established as “common” practice;
Advancing shared goals and values;
Professionals networks;
Adequate training;
Political and public support;
Problems solved effectively, efficiently, and in an integrated manner;
Reduced societal burdens and maximized opportunities.
International Reports
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Global construction materials company CEMEX developed its market-based "Patrimonio Hoy" solution to meet the housing needs of vulnerable families in urban and semi-urban areas, combining resilient and sustainable building with a savings program to improve communities and families’ quality of life. Given the growing impact of climate change, the expansion of this program can help fill the climate resilience gaps that exist throughout the world. This case study describes this innovative housing solution, how it creates impactful climate resilience, and what paths CEMEX and Patrimonio Hoy might take going forward. Por favor haga clic aquí para el informe en español.
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A report for the Canadian Climate Institute. Private capital is needed to invest in climate adaptation infrastructure as extreme weather events like fires and floods become more acute by the year. Public funding isn’t enough to meet the investment needs for adapting Canadian infrastructure to climate change.
The challenge is particularly acute for municipalities, which have limited resources and capacity to address the effects of climate change on Canada's public infrastructure despite owning and operating almost two-thirds of it. Report in en français.
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We were invited to contribute a chapter in a volume edited by Island Press with backing from the Kresge Foundation, based on our vanguard work defining climate resilience success as requiring a bedrock of social equity.
Our article, “Climate Disasters Hurt the Poor the Most. Here’s What We Can Do About It,” was followed by additional articles about how risk disclosure exacerbates rich-poor disparities, particularly TCFD.
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We were invited by our client Willis Towers Watson to participate as a resilience subject matter expert in a McKinsey Global Institute roundtable and subsequently contributed to McKinsey’s report identifying the physical effects of our changing climate.
The report explores risks today and over the next three decades and examines cases to understand the mechanisms through which physical climate change leads to increased socioeconomic risk.
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As part of her quest to understand and solve disparities in infrastructure service delivery, our founder co-authored a World Bank report identifying innovation and barriers to government investments aimed at building thriving communities. The report was crafted in parallel to her research for the paper “Innovations in Municipal Service Delivery: The Case of Vietnam's Haiphong Water Supply Company,
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We have invited contributors to an edited volume, offering leading-edge insights on how to Finance Resilient Infrastructure.
Our aim was to offer a bridge between government resilience and sustainability leaders and the finance sector to increase assets under management for infrastructure adaptation and resilience.
We also identified gaps in the book’s content and identified and guided content from peer consultants to ensure our shared mission
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C40 and McKinsey & Company research identified a set of high-impact actions to reduce risk that are cost-effective, and satisfy many stakeholders.
Report available here.
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The International Climate Bonds Initiative hired us as the Technical Lead of the Adaptation and Resilience Expert Group, 40 resilience and finance experts from around the globe. We led workshops and co-authorship of the Climate Resilience Principles, which guide both CBI’s sector based green bond standards and resilience investments more broadly. Major emphasis includes assessing and addressing risk at both the asset and systems level and building resilience outside of a project’s fence line. There is significant demand for the Principals - even as the project was wrapping up, it informed the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, guided the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developments $700M resilience bond issuance.
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We were asked by ARISE, the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies, a network led by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) to co-author a Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Industrial and Commercial Buildings.
We brokered additional global talent from our network to contribute as advisors, creating a tool that enables the establishment of a baseline for, and tracking of building and campus resilience to natural hazards or man-made disasters.
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Based on our founder’s vanguard work conceiving of and creating the Urban Adaptation Assessment, she was invited to contribute a co-authored article in the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy describing how to measure a city's preparedness for future climate hazards while at the same time suggesting opportunities for resilience improvement. The analysis focused on the primary urban hazards (flooding, heat waves, and drought). Subsequently, in coordination with a set of national urban adaptation leaders, she helped to conceive of how to consider social vulnerabilities and structural exposures, in concert with climate hazards, to help ensure the distribution of resources to improve social equity across communities.
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Our founder conceived of, crafted, and carried out the world’s first corporate adaptation survey, deriving a report that describes the climate risk drivers of greatest concern and defines how climate change will affect businesses. A frontrunner in the nascent corporate climate resilience space, the report includes information on:
How companies assess climate risk.
Who within an organization should be in charge of climate adaptation?
The main barriers to corporate adaptation; are corporate opportunities that emerge from climate change bring. Here
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As the managing director of the world’s leading index showing which countries are best prepared to handle climate disruption, our founder co-authored the report describing how GAIN selects resilience indicators and calculates a resilience score, including a description of each of the dozens of resilience measures and their data sources and rationale for their selection.
The report includes climate risk hazard measures and resilience measures for food, water, health, ecosystem services, human habitat, and infrastructure along with economic, governance and social readiness. here
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Supporting WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change, we wrote a vanguard report in advance of the World Economic Forum in Davos featuring the economics of climate adaptation, financing adaptation, and the effects of climate change on the water-food-energy nexus.
The first WEF paper to focus on resilience or adaptation, the report has galvanized significant change within WEF’s sphere of influence, as the annual Global Risk Perception Survey increasingly identifies adaptation and resilience risks as top concerns in terms of both likelihood and impact.
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Our founder created one of the world’s first adaptation strategies as a City of Chicago leader.
The strategy included scenario-based physical risk assessments by Katharine Hayhoe, cost-benefit analysis of predicted future public sector losses, adaptation goals, and adaptation measures. It was audited by an external Green Ribbon Committee and attracted significant philanthropic and pro bono resources, becoming a best-in-class example for the thousands of cities that have since created plans