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Issue 17: From Underwriters to Adaptation Architects: What Role Should Insurers Play in Advising on Climate Adaptation?

Issue 17: From Underwriters to Adaptation Architects: What Role Should Insurers Play in Advising on Climate Adaptation?

Tracking the insurance industry's transformation from risk carriers to adaptation architects. As climate losses render traditional models obsolete, insurers are selling data-driven resilience services—but does this pivot create a dangerous conflict when those who assess the risk also profit from the solution?

Analysis

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Roundup in Resilience: January 16, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: January 16, 2026

UK actuaries warned that hidden aerosol cooling offsets 0.5°C of warming masking true climate sensitivity, the Winter Olympics host pool shrinks precipitously by the 2050s, US incomes have contracted 12% since 2000 due to nationwide climate disruptions, European adaptation investments face a steep funding shortfall, and Chinese communities increasingly self-organise climate adaptation through grassroots knowledge-sharing.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: January 9, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: January 9, 2026

Analysis indicates 53% of Alpine ski resorts face very high snow-risk under 2°C warming, pollen allergy patterns expose how ideology mediates climate perception, the UK Department for Transport’s climate adaptation strategy acknowledges that critical infrastructure face flood risk, researchers propose ‘compounded resilience’ combining climate adaptation with emissions reductions in local governance, and UK winter rates of wildflower bloom is 30x normal signalling ecosystem phenology shifts.

Infrastructure

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Issue 16: The One-Percenters: When Corporate Climate Risk Reporting Dwarfs Actual Action on Adaptation

Issue 16: The One-Percenters: When Corporate Climate Risk Reporting Dwarfs Actual Action on Adaptation

Investigating why 80% of global corporations acknowledge physical climate risks yet fewer than 1% invest in adaptation—revealing a multi-billion-dollar corporate funding gap that will create a reckoning when regulations cause a widespread market repricing.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: January 2, 2026

Roundup in Resilience: January 2, 2026

Earth breached 1.5°C warming on a three-year rolling basis, the UN reframed climate change as a human rights crisis, 2025 emerged as the year of devastating floods, Portugal's wine sector recorded a 14% harvest collapse due to unprecedented drought, and Bhutan exposed critical governance and infrastructure failures threatening water security.

Resilience

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Roundup in Resilience: December 26, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: December 26, 2025

Arctic reindeer face 80% population declines by 2100, research reveals adaptation's most cost-effective tools are surprisingly simple, over half the world's coastal settlements have retreated inland over three decades, polar bears exhibit real-time genetic evolution in response to ice loss, and US ski seasons risk losing 14–60 days by 2050.

Technology

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Issue 15: How National Adaptation Plans Can Leap From the Page to the Pavement

Issue 15: How National Adaptation Plans Can Leap From the Page to the Pavement

Exploring the "decisive shift" in the global adaptation landscape as National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) move from the drawing board to the pavement. With an immense funding gap and implementation still largely fragmented, new sectoral deep-dives and financial innovations are beginning to show how the world's most vulnerable nations can bridge the gap between planning and survival.

Technology

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Roundup in Resilience: December 19, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: December 19, 2025

GEF funds mobilised $52 million across coastal restoration and smallholder livelihoods, Asia faces a $4 trillion water infrastructure gap, some of Africa's forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source, India confronts over $200 billion annual adaptation costs at 2°C warming, and Canadian farmers demonstrate that incremental agronomic investments can yield record harvests despite drought and floods.

Infrastructure

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Roundup in Resilience: December 12, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: December 12, 2025

Qatar and Ghana launched their National Adaptation Plans, Klarna mobilised AI for community-led resilience across six high-impact projects, China confronts a $226 billion annual adaptation funding shortfall, and Yale researchers introduced ‘tethered resilience’—a framework reframing climate migration beyond move or stay binaries.

Technology

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