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Oliver Buchannon
David Izikowitz

A published environmental scientist, uniquely trained in accounting, finance and environmental engineering, focused on developing solutions to build a more liveable world.


Roundup in Resilience: December 5, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: December 5, 2025

Exploring whether COP30’s call to triple climate finance by 2035 can be implemented, AI guides Indian farmers through monsoon chaos, Asia’s cities need $1.7 trillion annually for climate adaptation, agroforestry shows promise for West African cocoa under specific conditions, and genomic sequencing reveals evolutionary resilience strategies in butterflies and moths.

Infrastructure

+5

Roundup in Resilience: November 28, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: November 28, 2025

Malaria mosquitoes expand habitats across Africa, Bangladesh's coastal households struggle, Albania commits €8.46 billion to climate adaptation through 2036, UAE research reveals stormy days set to double and Vietnam tallies $3 billion in storm losses, exposing critical adaptation gaps.

Investment

+4

Issue 13: The Global Goals on Adaptation Have Finally Earned a Yardstick. Shame About the Funding

Issue 13: The Global Goals on Adaptation Have Finally Earned a Yardstick. Shame About the Funding

Examining the Belém Package and the stark contrast between its new resilience metrics and the funding pledged to meet them. The world has created a high-fidelity surveillance system to measure its growing fragility, yet by refusing to fund the necessary structural repairs, this compliance trap risks measuring misery rather than curing it.

Technology

+5

Roundup in Resilience: November 21, 2025

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.

News

+5

Roundup in Resilience: November 14, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: November 14, 2025

COP30 in Belém crystallised adaptation's dual reality: adaptation philanthropy surged 120% to $870 million, Gates committed $1.4 billion for smallholder farmer adaptation, and a $300 million health-climate coalition was mobilised, However, African and Arab nations pushed back against adaptation indicators fearing unfair fiscal burdens, and while funding commitments surged the $284–365 billion annual adaptation gap persists.

Investment

+5

Issue 12: The Resilience Dividend: Cashing in on Climate Adaptation Technologies

Issue 12: The Resilience Dividend: Cashing in on Climate Adaptation Technologies

Challenging the idea that adaptation finance doesn’t yield returns. With private capital still viewing adaptation as a high-risk cost centre, we’re exploring the mature, bankable technologies that are already delivering clear, quantifiable returns and moving resilience from the cost to the investment column.

Technology

+5

Roundup in Resilience: November 7, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: November 7, 2025

Pre-COP30 preparations crystallised around adaptation themes, adaptation market design flaws in the spotlight with blended finance stalled at $15.5 billion in 2024, Vietnam confronted a succession of storms reshaping its urban strategy, Fidelity Bank Ghana attempts to scale adaptation finance across the continent, and the Philippines showcased regional adaptation leadership.

Infrastructure

+4

Roundup in Resilience: October 31, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 31, 2025

UNEP reported developing countries receive less than 10% of needed adaptation funds, heat‐related deaths hit 546,000 annually, the UN’s Guterres acknowledged humanity's failure to meet the 1.5°C target, elite athletes launched Adapt2Win urging governments to prioritise adaptation finance, an Indonesian naval officer linked climate change to terrorism and piracy, and attribution science confirmed Hurricane Melissa was made four times more likely by warming.

Resilience

+4

Issue 11: Building Resilience or Building Debt? A Review of the State of the Climate Adaptation Capital Stack

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.

Analysis

+3

Roundup in Resilience: October 24, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 24, 2025

Malaysia embedded adaptation into its climate bill after public pressure, UK experts warned three major cities face "unliveable" conditions, Adaptation Futures spotlighted Asia's dual role on the climate frontline and as a solution incubator, the UN Climate Chief declared a "serious need for speed" remains in adaptation, and climate change drove India's worse than average seasonal monsoon.

Infrastructure

+3

Roundup in Resilience: October 17, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 17, 2025

India pushed for an "adaptation COP" in Brazil, Christchurch hosted the world's largest adaptation gathering ahead of COP30, Climate Fund Managers closed a landmark $1 billion adaptation infrastructure fund, scientists confirmed warm‐water coral reefs have passed their thermal tipping point, the Loss and Damage Fund will launch its first call for proposals at COP30, and the UK's climate advisors urged preparing infrastructure for 2°C.

Resilience

+4

Issue 10: Are Existing Climate Adaptation Standards Fit For Purpose or Just Performance Art

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.

Analysis

+3

Roundup in Resilience: October 10, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 10, 2025

Germany committed record climate finance with greater leverage for adaptation, global youth gather for Climate Adaptation Action Day, the UK and Malaysia deepen cooperation on resilience, biologists warn of “ecological traps” as seasonal cues misfire, and New Zealand funds an implementation-first research programme for adaptation.

Resilience

+4

Roundup in Resilience: October 3, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: October 3, 2025

A new report on adaptation finance for Small Island Developing States, research revealed corals may be adapting to ocean acidification, the Asian Development Bank approved $3.5 billion in adaptation investment, adaptation experts debate how to measure climate resilience progress, the European Investment Bank doubled adaptation finance, and Ghana's climate minister pushes for debt relief to enable locally-led adaptation.

Resilience

+3

Issue 9: Why Venture Capital is not Flooding into the Adaptation Opportunity

Issue 9: Why Venture Capital is not Flooding into the Adaptation Opportunity

Exploring venture capital’s blind spot: climate adaptation. Investors obsess over risk intelligence while neglecting physical defences, leaving the startups that could protect cities, food and grids stranded in a funding desert.

Technology

+4

Roundup in Resilience: September 26, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: September 26, 2025

Nordic governments launched a $100 million adaptation fund for Africa, Japanese scientists unveiled a breakthrough in flood prediction, Pakistan's Prime Minister called for adequate climate adaptation finance, researchers discovered that dragonflies face extinction, and a study quantified the benefits of proactive climate preparation.

Resilience

+3

Roundup in Resilience: September 19, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: September 19, 2025

The World Economic Forum quantified the climate's economic toll, business leaders made the case for revolutionising private adaptation finance, the UN warned of an increasingly erratic global water cycle, Brazil confronts a surge in mosquito-borne disease, and military spending starves climate adaptation funding.

News

+3

Issue 8: Beyond the Billions - Where is Adaptation Finance Actually Going? (and is it working)

Issue 8: Beyond the Billions - Where is Adaptation Finance Actually Going? (and is it working)

Exploring whether adaptation finance is doing its job. The cash has doubled, but the cracks are widening - suggesting the resilience business is still more aspiration than achievement.

Analysis

+3

Roundup in Resilience: September 12, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: September 12, 2025

A UN report showcased governance innovations in climate adaptation, London's Tube struggles to adapt to record summer heat, the Africa Climate Summit pushes for transformative adaptation finance, scientists reveal climate's troubling link to increased sugar consumption, and the 2026 World Cup faces extreme heat conditions.

Technology

+4

Issue 7: Tipping Points - What Happens When the World's Weather Engine Seizes?

Issue 7: Tipping Points - What Happens When the World's Weather Engine Seizes?

The Atlantic’s great conveyor belt and what happens if it stops. Long seen as a distant risk, scientists now warn that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could break down this century. The stakes are staggering: trillions in economic losses, the collapse of global food systems, and the largest wave of human migration in history.

Analysis

+5

Roundup in Resilience: September 5, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: September 5, 2025

East Asia sweltered through record-breaking summer heat, scientists warned of an Atlantic current collapse, the mental health toll of environmental grief, Latin American children face climate-driven poverty, and Uganda's coffee farmers pioneer adaptation strategies.

Technology

+5

Issue 6: Monetising Resilience - Building the Financial Architecture for Resilience Credits

Issue 6: Monetising Resilience - Building the Financial Architecture for Resilience Credits

Exploring the rise of ‘resilience credits’ as an opportunity for private sector adaptation finance. With private capital sticking to the sidelines and measurement challenges unresolved, early pilots and new financial architectures are beginning to show how adaptation could finally scale.

Analysis

+3

Roundup in Resilience: August 29, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: August 29, 2025

Brazil secured Amazonian support for a $125 billion forest fund, World Water Week put water at the heart of the climate fight, attribution science showed climate change made Mediterranean wildfires 10 times more likely, warming European waters force a great fish migration, and a 40-year study revealed South American forests can't keep up with warming.

News

+5

Issue 5: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Brings for Climate Adaptation

Issue 5: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Brings for Climate Adaptation

Evaluating what America’s retreat from climate ambition under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act means for adaptation. With federal climate funds gutted but new resilience emerging through defence, water and health spending, adaptation is being reshaped by stealth.

Technology

+4

Roundup in Resilience: August 22, 2025

Roundup in Resilience: August 22, 2025

Devastating cloudbursts ravage Himalayan communities, Vietnam pioneers vector-borne disease surveillance, global climate concern fractures along political lines, Mumbai drowns under monsoon rain, and ClimateWorks opens $9 million in funding for urban heat resilience.

Infrastructure

+3

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