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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Issue 4: Innovation in Adaptation Finance - What New Models Are Emerging?
The novel models aiming to bridge the mammoth climate adaptation financing gap, with blended finance demonstrating a crowding in effect, and adaptation finance on a growth trajectory.
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Week in Review: August 15, 2025
Zambia hosts the UN's largest adaptation gathering as African youth demand direct climate finance, politically green German cities receive most of the country's adaptation funding, ASEAN wrestles with resilience through nature, and grassroots mapping tools to crowdsource climate resilience
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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
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