Climate Proofers

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  CWNYC 2026: Securing Growth in a Resource-Constrained World 29.09.2026 53นาที

  Editor’s Note 9/30/26: The original version of this episode used inferior audio and was enhanced using editing software in a way that distorted the voices of the guests at times. The audio has since been replaced with an unenhanced version. I apologize...
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  Dave Jones On California's Wildfire Liability Deadlock 22.09.2026 45นาที

  California built a roughly $20 billion fund to keep its utilities solvent after their equipment burns down towns. Last year, the Los Angeles inferno nearly drained it — and a few weeks ago the state government's scramble to amend the wildfire liability...
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  Karl Mallon On Combating 'Climate Risk Washing' 15.09.2026 52นาที

  With a cannot-be-missed deadline approaching for a VIP client, Karl Mallon’s team at physical risk analytics provider XDI found a mistake in data they’d already prepared to deliver. The debate inside the company: quietly ship it and hope no one noticed...
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  Dan Ward On What AI Can — and Can't — Do for Cat Models 08.09.2026 38นาที

  AI is disrupting everything — including how we estimate the financial shock of extreme weather events. For decades, insurers, reinsurers, and other financial institutions have relied on catastrophe (or ‘cat’) models to gauge potential losses from hurri...
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  Andrew Rumbach On FEMA's Reform Reckoning 01.09.2026 53นาที

  Few public organizations have attracted the ire of the Trump administration like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). America’s premier disaster response unit found itself the target of right-wing conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 electi...
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  Danya Liu On What's Really Driving Adaptation Markets 25.08.2026 28นาที

  Financial losses from climate hazards are piling up. CEOs and major investors are sounding off in public on the perils of physical risks. But the market for adaptation solutions is yet to take off. Why? In this episode, Danya Liu ( https://www.linkedin...
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  Rachael Gauthier On the Science of Risk Communication 18.08.2026 41นาที

  Adaptation cannot happen in a vacuum. People have to understand what climate and extreme weather risks look like and feel like ahead of time in order to respond appropriately. This is where accessible and informative science communication proves its va...
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  Michael Newman On Hardening Homes Against Hail, Wind, and Fire 11.08.2026 40นาที

  It’s a strange sort of research organization that spends its time finding ever more creative ways to destroy residential real estate. But that’s exactly what the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) was set up to do — and for good reas...
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  Nik Steinberg & Daisy Streatfeild On Why Climate Risk Vendors Can't Agree 04.08.2026 38นาที

  Put seven leading physical risk vendors to the test on a single flood-prone stretch of road outside Paris, and here’s what you get: agreement on exactly one obvious hotspot, and violent disagreement everywhere else. It’s one of several somewhat awkward...
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  Elyse Schupak On Fixing America's Resilient Homes Grant Programs 28.07.2026 43นาที

  Climate change is laying waste to US homes. Economic losses in North America — including to residential property — from storms, floods, fires, and other shocks exceeded US$133bn ( https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/topics-and-risk-dialogues/cli...
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  David Fischer On Pricing Physical Risk Into Every Financial Decision 21.07.2026 49นาที

  Ask a large company about their climate exposure and you may be dismissed with the answer: "We're insured, we're fine." David Fischer ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-n-fischer-56249849/ ) has spent his career showing why that's not quite true, and ...
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  Meryam Omi On Why Corporate Adaptation Data Needs to Be Open 14.07.2026 43นาที

  Understanding corporations’ exposure to physical risks — and their resilience to them — is essential to building a climate-proof economy. But if this information is manufactured by black box models and hidden behind paywalls, then investors, communitie...
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  Oliver Marchand On Why Adaptation Needs A New 'Decision Engine' 05.05.2026 32นาที

  This episode is sponsored by Resilens ( https://resilens.com/ ), a "decision engine" for climate adaptation When adaptation managers approach funders with a climate-proofing measure, there's one question they can count on hearing: "What's the return on...
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  Jakob Thomä On How Markets And Governments Could Respond To Climate Shocks 21.04.2026 52นาที

  What do investors, corporate practitioners, and climate professionals really think about the consequences of rising climate physical risks? A recent survey by Climate Proof and Theia Finance Labs ( https://theiafinance.org/ ) set out to answer this que...
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  Paul Munday On The Latest In Corporate Adaptation Planning 07.04.2026 35นาที

  There’s good news and bad news on the state of corporate adaptation planning. Today’s guest — Climate Proof veteran Dr Paul Munday ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpaulmunday/ ) from S&P Global Ratings — joins the pod to tell all. First, the good news. ...
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  Verena Radulovic & Libby Zemaitis On Why Corporate Resilience Starts In The Community 31.03.2026 50นาที

  If you work in corporate sustainability, this pitch has become well-worn: climate resilience is good for business. Protect your assets, buttress your supply chains, and reap the rewards when trouble stirs. It's a compelling enough argument — but one th...
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  Kevin Stiroh On The Bank Climate Risk Management Rollback 24.03.2026 42นาที

  Working in climate risk management at a US bank this past decade, you'd be forgiven for having a little whiplash. Starting around 2015, central banks and financial supervisors started probing lenders on their climate risk practices, eager to head off p...
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  Stacy Swann On Angel Investing In Climate Resilience 17.03.2026 33นาที

  The climate start-up world is never easy. But the last year has made it harder. Amidst the turmoil of President Trump's second coming, grants for small businesses and promising climate technologies all but evaporated. Indeed, the very word "climate" be...
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  Kate Stein On Confronting America's Uninsurability Crisis 10.03.2026 49นาที

  Scan the headlines, and you'll see the same climate-related story again and again. It's the "uninsurability crisis". This claims that America's insurance market is cracking under the weight of climate change. Premiums are soaring. Major carriers are pu...
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  Will Everill On Making Pests, Invasives & Bio Risk Tech The Next Adaptation Frontier 09.12.2025 41นาที

  Pests, invasive species, and biological (PIB) threats are on the rise. Why? You guessed it — climate change. Higher temperatures are exacerbating the spread of crop-munching pests, waterway-clogging marine species, and disease-laden insects. Indeed, PI...