Agriculture

Issue 19: The Riches of Resilience — The Smart Money Profiting From the World’s Biggest Mispriced Risk

Exploring why climate adaptation is quietly becoming one of the highest‐return strategies in corporate finance, and how climate risk assessments are turning floods, heatwaves and supply‐chain shocks into investable resilience projects. As physical risks start to bite and lenders tighten their expectations, we explore how firms, from Unilever to Maersk and data centre operators, are discovering that the real premium now lies in resilience.

Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

Issue 3: Tipping Points - What Happens When Earth's Lungs Stop Breathing

Amazon dieback and what this means for the future of food, money and migration flows across Amazonia, but bright sparks in significantly reduced rates of deforestation and raising a mega fund for rainforest protection