Events
San Francisco Climate Week 2025 – Tailwind’s Roundup of Events
April 21-25, 2025 | San Francisco
Meet the Tailwind team at SF Climate Week from April 21-25th! Here’s a list of events our team will attend. (Events not hyperlinked are by invitation only) Monday, April 21st Tuesday, April 22nd Wednesday, April 23rd Thursday, April 24th Friday, April 25th Stop by to chat, reach out to us on Linkedin, or email us …
Climate Policy Initiative: Bridging the Gap – Catalyzing Private Investment in Adaptation
April 23, 2025 | San Francisco, CA
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is hosting the SF Climate Week event: “Bridging the Gap: Catalyzing Private Investment in Adaptation”, sponsored by ClimateWorks Foundation. Emilie Mazzacurati will be speaking in the panel discussion, “What’s Working, What’s Next?”, on Wednesday April 23rd from 1-2:30PM PT. Join us for an afternoon of conversations with investors, sector experts, and …
SF Climate Week: New Solutions for Climate Resilience Investment
April 24, 2025 | San Francisco, CA & Virtual
Tailwind will be co-hosting the San Francisco Climate Week event: New Solutions for Climate Resilience Investment on April 24, 2025, alongside GARI, DBL Partners, and Morrison Foerster. Our team will be represented by Emilie Mazzacurati and Brooke Zhang. Emilie will be moderating the 2nd panel, covering A&R innovation needs and leading a discussion on where …
Climate Robotics Summit
May 6-9, 2025 | Virtual
Brooke Zhang will be speaking at the Climate Robotics Summit from May 6-9, 2025. The Summit is a virtual conference that builds a multidisciplinary community and knowledge base to inform the responsible, inclusive, and sustainable application of Climate Robotics. Brooke will be speaking on Friday, March 9th on the responsible development and deployment of robotics …
AdaptUnbound 2025
May 14-15, 2025 | New York, NY
Join the Tailwind team at AdaptUnbound 2025 in New York, NY on May 14-15, 2025. More than 200 leaders and visionaries will convene in May 2025 to scale innovative solutions and unlock the critical capital needed to prepare, prevent, respond and recover from evolving climate risks. Whether through physical infrastructure or organisational attitude, preparation is …
Stanford Emergence: Impact Entrepreneurship Summit 2025
May 30, 2025 | San Francisco, CA
Emilie Mazzacurati will be attending the Stanford Emergence’s Impact Entrepreneurship Summit on May 30, 2025. This is an invite-only event that brings together thought leaders, innovators, and collaborators from academia, industry, government, venture capital, and philanthropy—all united by our shared commitment to driving preventive and inclusive health innovations. What to Expect: May 30, 2025 from …
Interviews
Adapt Unbound – Climate Adaptation Investment and Finance: The $1 Trillion Opportunity
March 20, 2025 | Adapt Unbound
Emilie Mazzacurati was a panelist in Adapt Unbound’s webinar covering Climate Adaptation Investment and Finance on March 20, 2025 at 11AM ET/8AM PT/16:00 GMT. Watch the webinar on-demand here! (signing up will immediately email you the video) In this webinar, Adapt Unbound brings together key investment leaders to discuss: Panellists Moderator
CleanTech IQ: Developing the Business Case for Resilience
September 23, 2024 | CleanTechIQ Climate Week NYC
During Climate Week NYC in September 2024, CleanTech IQ hosted the Transition-IQ Climate Week NYC Forum, where Tailwind’s Emilie Mazzacurati (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) sat down with Victoria Salinas (Former Deputy Administrator for Resilience, FEMA) to discuss how investors are tackling the climate emergency. During this event, we discussed where action from investors is …
Climate Adaptation Predictions for 2025: What the Experts Say
January 13, 2025 | America Adapts
In episode 221 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts some of the world’s leading adaptation experts (and previous podcast guests) to make climate predictions for 2025! From the growing impacts of wildfires reshaping communities, extreme heat, adaptation technology, to the potential massive shifts in climate policy under a new presidential administration, this year promises to …
The Adaptation Playbook: Innovative Strategies for Climate Resilience
December 20, 2024 | America Adapts
In this episode, Doug Parsons chatted with Katie MacDonald, co-founder of Tailwind, a pioneering firm dedicated to driving innovation in climate adaptation. Katie and her team at Tailwind are at the forefront of helping companies tackle some of the most pressing climate hazards—think wildfires, heat waves, and more. And now, they’ve taken it a step further …
Climate Proofers: Tailwind Climate’s Adaptation Playbook
December 17, 2024 | ClimateProof
Extreme weather shocks may be on track to inflict some US$560bn or so of losses on listed companies every year by 2035, but so far very little early investor money is going into adaptation and resilience (A&R) solutions. That’s according to new analysis by Tailwind Climate, an adaptation-focused advisory and investment firm, which last week released a 112-page playbook on …
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 …
News
The Business Case For Climate Adaptation
April 8, 2025 | Forbes Media
Tailwind’s Emilie Mazzacurati spoke with Jamil Wyne for the Forbes article, The Business Case for Adaptation. It sets the stage for the state of adaptation & resilience investment and where demand for solutions is growing using Tailwind data. Excerpts include: Why is there a gap? “While there is no single reason that can explain the …
Mind the Gaps: Tailwind’s New Playbook Aims to Plug Adaptation’s Capital, Demand, and Ecosystem Holes
December 12, 2024 | ClimateProof
The advisory and investment firm reports a shocking lack of financing for adaptation and resilience innovations TL;DR Read the full story (subscription required).
Investment in adaptation startups ‘remains glaringly low’
December 12, 2024 | Latitude Media
New research by Tailwind Climate finds funding gaps in the adaptation space, even as investor interest starts to consolidate. The adaptation and resilience investment space is amassing investor interest — but still has big funding gaps slowing its evolution. A new report, published today by the investment and advisory firm Tailwind Climate, has found that when it comes …
$1.4 Trillion Market for Climate Adaptation and Resilience Solutions
December 12, 2024 | Tailwind (Press Release)
But only 21% of climate tech venture funding goes to adaptation tech startups NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2024 — The advisory and investment firm Tailwind (www.tailwindclimate.com) has released the Adaptation & Resilience Innovation Playbook, a market report on the state of supply, demand, and investment capital available in the climate adaptation innovation space. Adaptation and …
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 …