February 2024

Written By Maddie Vann

February was about setting strategies in motion for how The Resiliency Company can mobilize the funding, policies, and innovation mechanisms required to enable communities to live safely amidst a time of accelerating climate disasters and hazards. 

Resiliency Co’s work is organized around two strategic pillars: 1) Tell a compelling story about resiliency, and 2) Create conditions for success. Here’s what we’ve recently been up to across each of these pillars:

1: Where we told the “resiliency” story this month, to help make a compelling case

Recent events and ecosystem highlights:

  • Adapt Unbound Showcase: About The Resiliency Company | Abby Ross, CEO of The Resiliency Company, was featured in the 'Unbound Showcase' interview series with pioneers of climate adaptation and resilience solutions.

  • FirstStreet Forecast 2025 event | Spencer Glendon (Probable Futures) and Carolyn Kousky (Insurance for Good) spoke on a panel with First Street to present on the macroeconomic risks, insurance challenges, and repercussions of climate disasters.

  • Resiliency Co hosted a Bay Area Resiliency Co Happy Hour with 24 orgs in attendance in Sebastopol, CA. More to come in other areas of the U.S. soon! Sign up for a future resiliency gathering with us here.

Recent content from The Resiliency Company portfolio and partners:

2: Create Conditions for Success

To incentivize the conditions that will enable adaptation that yields resiliency, The Resiliency Co. is currently focusing on three key markets that have much to gain by investing in resilient infrastructure: 1) insurance 2) municipal bonds, and 3) commercial real estate.  We are working within these markets to find places where Resiliency Co. can influence how decisions are made and find opportunities for programmatic work that will yield more capital to flow to resilient infrastructure investments:

  • Insurance - How might Los Angeles ensure that their rebuild is insurable?

  • Municipal Bonds - How might we rally state and local governments to consider climate risk and build more resilient infrastructure?

  • Real Estate - How can a commercial real estate investment ensure resiliency is a core tenet of how a new building gets designed, financed, built, and insured?

Stay tuned for more to come!

Best,

Abby, CEO of The Resiliency Company

Maddie Vann
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January 2024