May 2025
May was filled with exciting opportunities to share the work of The Resiliency Company, including at the Milken Global Conference, the GARI Investment Group, an insurance roundtable, and a venture capital summit. Across all of these different audiences, it was evident that leaders are recognizing the increasing physical risks from disasters and extreme weather, but don’t always know what to do about it (plug for the Probable Futures Progress Report).
Strategic Pillar 1: Tell a compelling story about resiliency
In May, The Resiliency Company sharpened our storytelling about specific critical infrastructure examples from our portfolio of current pilot opportunities, to help make the case for what resilient infrastructure looks like and how we can mobilize capital for it. These included:
Residential infrastructure: Resiliency Co is raising a fund to help homeowners build to a resilient, insurable standard. How might we finance the “resiliency delta” so that homeowners in Los Angeles can afford to rebuild their homes to the highest studied resilience standards and preserve insurability?
Commercial infrastructure: Working with industry leaders like JLL, ULI, Wells Fargo, Amazon Global Realty, and Turner Construction, Resiliency Co is helping develop a Climate Risk Playbook for new commercial real estate builds. How can we align key stakeholders in the commercial real estate industry (architects, engineers, contractors, investors, owners) to build with resilience?
Public infrastructure: Resiliency Co is evaluating “scoped but stalled” resilient infrastructure projects that have community buy-in but have lost funding from federal cuts. Can these projects (ranging in size from $50M-1B) be financed on the private market?
Strategic Pillar 2: Create Conditions for Success
Read about how The Resiliency Company’s work is taking shape in Los Angeles from Francis Bouchard, a Managing Director at Marsh McLennan (a global leading insurance broker). This work in LA, to create conditions that will preserve insurability in the region, will kick off with a 2-day convening June 24-25th with a broad group of stakeholders to discuss rebuilding efforts and the Delta Fund’s design.
More soon,
Abby