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?
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Issue 14: Mutirão or Mirage. Did COP30 Deliver the Metric System of Misery?
Unpacking the “historic" compromise at COP30, where nations finally agreed on a yardstick for adaptation after a decade of delay. With 59 new indicators but no binding finance mechanism, we explore how a back-room political deal overrode years of technical consensus, creating a framework for documenting the climate crisis while remaining stubbornly inadequate at resolving it.
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What Exactly are the 59 Belém Adaptation Indicators? A Categorised List and Analysis of All Indicators
Documenting the Belém Adaptation Indicators’ journey from 5,339 to 59 metrics. The long-awaited operational tool for the Global Goal on Adaptation, with the initial long list of thousands now refined into a concise group of voluntary metrics, provides the first roadmap for measuring the world’s collective resilience.
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Roundup in Resilience: November 21, 2025
COP30 negotiators haggled over 100 indicators to measure progress while starving frontline communities of resources, Canada committed CAD$263 million to IFAD's smallholder farmer adaptation, a landmark FAO-UNDP report on agrifood found that only 16% of measures in NAPs address climate impacts or vulnerable populations, and a call to triple adaptation finance commitments meets developed world barriers.
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Issue 11: Building Resilience or Building Debt? A Review of the State of the Climate Adaptation Capital Stack
Taking a critical look at the adaptation capital stack - the financial market infrastructure meant to deliver more than $200 billion annually for climate resilience. Despite sophisticated instruments and institutional mobilisation, fundamental design flaws keep adaptation finance trapped at a fraction of what's needed.
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Issue 10: Are Existing Climate Adaptation Standards Fit For Purpose or Just Performance Art
Exploring the uncomfortable truth about climate adaptation standards. Five years into ISO 14090, organisations can demonstrate full compliance without proving they're any more resilient. As the effectiveness of adaptation projects drops sharply beyond 1.5°C warming, the stakes for getting measurement right have never been higher.
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