Events
ClimateTech Connect
April 15-16, 2025 | Washington, D.C.
Emilie Mazzacurati and Brooke Zhang will be at ClimateTech Connect from April 15-16, 2025 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center / Washington, DC. Emilie will be speaking on the “The State of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience (AR) Market” panel on Wednesday. ClimateTech Connect is the premier global conference and trade show …
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 …
Interviews
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
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 …