Building a more resilient future
The Resiliency Company mobilizes the funding, policies, and innovation mechanisms required to shift markets and minds toward resiliency to end $1B disasters in the US.
The Resiliency Company’s mission is to inspire and empower humanity to adapt to the accelerating challenges of the next 100 years to create a more abundant and equitable future for all.
a hazard meets a vulnerability.
The defining challenge of today
From the 1980s until the early 2000s, a $1 billion disaster (including CPI adjustment to 2023) hit the U.S. about every 73 days (meaning roughly 5 disasters per year). As of 2024, a $1 billion disaster hits roughly every 18 days. By 2030, a $1 billion disaster could hit the US every week.
Annual Number of Billion-Dollar Disasters, 1980-2024
The Resiliency Company envisions a world in which communities, families, and businesses in the United States can thrive amidst a changing climate. We believe that by shifting markets and minds towards resilience we can reverse the increasing costs associated with more frequent and severe climate hazards.
We define resiliency as the ability of infrastructure—the physical, economic, and social systems central to the functioning of an economy and a society—to withstand extreme climate impacts and recover from them quickly.
There are various sectors in the U.S., that all communities rely on for quality of life, that we believe are points of entry for increased resilience focus. Telling better stories, creating conditions for success, and moving from funding to financing is how we approach a set of problems that is $2 trillion in size globally.
The Resiliency Company is a parent organization that mobilizes the funding, policies, and innovation required to decrease the financial impact of climate disasters and hazards. By shifting markets and minds towards resilience, we can end $1B disasters in the U.S.
We’re not a think tank - we’re a do tank. Our approach is to encourage organizations and experts at the intersection of climate science, adaptation, finance, and policy to come together to ensure our country’s infrastructure is resilient to disasters and hazards.
To end $1B disasters in the U.S., we need to mobilize investment into critical infrastructure that will help communities withstand the impacts of forthcoming disasters and hazards.
Our role in the ecosystem
Make the case for resiliency
Research
Trends, news, and storytelling
Quantifying the ROI of resilience investments
Education
Public finance
Insurance
Real estate & construction
Create conditions for success
Our Partners
Climate literacy to help people and companies adapt to climate change
A nonprofit Donor Advised Fund that has moved $5B to nonprofits
Reimagining insurance as a force for social and environmental good
Independent media initiative to shift markets and minds towards resiliency
As more frequent climate threats destroy lives and livelihoods, the costs associated with climate disasters continue to rapidly increase. Since 1980, the US has averaged eight “billion-dollar disasters" every year. As of mid-2024, however, the U.S. had already experienced 19 such disasters, collectively costing the U.S. nearly $50 billion (3)
If we want to reverse the accelerating costs of climate driven disasters, we must adapt our country’s infrastructure to be resilient instead of just rebuilding the same way we always have.
The U.S. faces a massive financing gap in the adaptation capital required to fortify our country’s infrastructure. In the landscape of climate financing in 2022, adaptation accounted for only 5% of total global climate finance. (4) And according to the World Economic Forum, the total climate adaptation and resilience financing deployed amounts to only 20-30% of projected annual Adaptation and Resilience financing needs. (5)
Meanwhile, most of the resources deployed following a disaster are allocated to either short-term relief or rebuilding “back to normal,” leaving insufficient funding to make the necessary upfront investments to build with resilience so that the next disaster is less destructive. In most climate-driven disasters, 90% of the funds raised come in within the first 6 weeks, and flow out within the first 6 months, leaving little capital for the longer-term recovery that lasts 3-6 years for most communities.
As the rate of climate-driven disasters in the U.S. accelerates, we must imagine better financing strategies in order to catalyze capital toward adaptation and resilience.