Catalyst: The Rise of Adaptation Tech
September 5, 2024 | Latitude Media
Cutting emissions is essential to avoiding the worst of climate change, but we also have to deal with the impacts of climate change happening now. Fortunately, there’s a growing list of technologies that could help us adapt — and potentially turn a profit for investors, too. Will these emerging adaptation and resilience (A&R) technologies take …
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Catalyst: The Rise of Adaptation Tech
September 5, 2024 | Latitude Media
Cutting emissions is essential to avoiding the worst of climate change, but we also have to deal with the impacts of climate change happening now. Fortunately, there’s a growing list of technologies that could help us adapt — and potentially turn a profit for investors, too. Will these emerging adaptation and resilience (A&R) technologies take …
Greenomics Ep. 10 | Out of the frying pan? Climate impacts and adaptation opportunities.
May 3, 2024 | Greenomics
How does extreme heat affect human health and the economy, and what is being done about it? Shilpita Mathews, Senior Economist at Oxford Economics, joins our host Sarah Nelson to discuss adaptation. Shilpita speaks to guests Jane Gilbert, Chief Heat Officer of Miami-Dade County and Emilie Mazzacurati the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Tailwind about …
Everybody in the Pool: Surviving when the Water is Rising
November 23, 2023 | Molly Wood
This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re going back to the topic that first got Molly interested in climate solutions: adaptation and resilience. Or, put simply, how we survive the worsening climate crisis. This week, we’re talking with Emilie Mazzacurati, who’s been working on getting attention, money, and data on this part of the …
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As Disasters Strike, Investors Turn to Adaptation Tech
October 11, 2024 | Heatmap
As the southeastern U.S. recovers from hurricanes Helene and Milton, the destruction the storms have left behind serves to underline the obvious: The need for technologies that support climate change adaptation and resilience is both real and urgent. And while nearly all the money in climate finance still flows into mitigation tech, which seeks to …
The ‘relentless optimism’ of investing in adaptation
July 25, 2024 | Latitude Media
“We need adaptation and resilience solutions not only to protect ourselves, but to envision how humanity can thrive on the planet.” Read the full story, quoting Katie MacDonald.
The Gist: It’s Getting Hot in Here
May 16, 2024 | The Gist
Katie MacDonald is interviewed by Jim Kapsis, CEO of the Ad Hoc group in their June 2024 newsletter, The Gist. “We don’t have a single net-zero-equivalent target metric when it comes to adaptation and resilience and we never will! But we need to quantify what resilience success looks like so we know what direction to …
