The Adapt Interviews

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  The Adapt Interview Series #8: Harish Pesala (SmartResilience) 09.09.2026 17min

  An 80-page climate risk report won't stop a flood. Companies spend six figures commissioning them, and almost none of that budget survives to actually get anything built. Harish Pesala ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/harishpesala/ ), founder of SmartResi...
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  The Adapt Interview Series #7: Tim Dudas (Plain Site) 12.08.2026 12min

  A property owner may spend real money hardening a site against flood risk, with the hopes of impressing their insurer and seeing their premiums reduced.But then renewal season comes around, and nothing changes — the flood-proofing is genuine, but it's ...
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  The Adapt Interview Series #6: Elizabeth Foughty (Orbital Sentry) 29.07.2026 19min

  Most satellite data arrives as a snapshot — a single image, taken in an instant, and updated maybe every 30 minutes, if you're lucky. Elizabeth Foughty ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethfoughty/ ) wants to replace the snapshot with a livestream. S...
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  The Adapt Interview Series #5: Tripp Wall (Pantheon Regeneration) 15.07.2026 18min

  Restoring degraded wetlands and peatlands unlocks a mind-boggling array of climate resilience benefits.These systems mitigate saltwater intrusion, buffer coastal land from sea level rise, and reopen freshwater aquifers that communities and ecosystems d...
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  The Adapt Interview Series #4 Charlie Bilsland (Temperate) 01.07.2026 12min

  Here's a fact that should stop you in your tracks: there is no such thing as cooling. Every air conditioner, every refrigerator, every cooling system ever built doesn't actually 'cool' anything — it just moves heat from one place to another. The refrig...
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  Christy Swann (RCOAST) 17.06.2026 21min

  Twenty-two thousand miles of coastline are actively eroding right now — a number projected to nearly triple, to 60,000 miles, in the years ahead. In the US alone, coastal counties generate $9.5 trillion in economic activity, and close to a billion peop...
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  David Adler (Groundswell) 03.06.2026 15min

  Climate risk has long been viewed as a threat to physical assets and business revenues. In this episode, we sit down with David Adler ( http:// ), co-founder of Groundswell ( https://www.groundswell.earth/ ), to make the case for a different framing en...
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  Dr Iain Willis (Tempest Risk) 20.05.2026 10min

  Most companies know climate risk is coming for their assets. Far fewer know how to measure it — or what it would cost to do something about it. That's the gap that Iain Willis at Tempest Risk is working to close. Tempest Risk ( http:// ) is a UK-based ...
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  Adapt Interview Series: Preview 19.05.2026 14min

  The Adapt Interview Series is a collaboration between Climate Proof and The Adapt newsletter platforming those adaptech founders working to strengthen our planet's defenses against runaway global warming. In this curtain-raiser episode, Will Everill — ...