The impacts of climate change are hitting the world everywhere, all at once — making climate adaptation more urgent than ever before.
This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re flipping the script on climate adaption; no longer viewing it as a funding gap, but as an investment opportunity that could bring lots of types of finance to the table for returns and impact. Niall Murphy, co-founder and managing partner of Morphosis, sits down with Molly to discuss how the world can scale solutions for an already-changing climate, and why the private sector needs to get involved in the new “adaptation economy.”
We talk about:
- What living beyond 1.5 degrees means for adaptation
- How 90% of adaptation funding is currently public money, and why that can’t scale to meet the demand
- The case for viewing climate impacts as emerging markets and investment opportunities
- Why insurers’ panic is actually the tipping point we’ve been waiting for
- Real examples of commercially viable adaptation solutions, from solar-filtering polymers to micro-scale desalination
- The policy gaps that are holding back deployment
- How Morphosis aggregates capital to deploy solutions where they're needed most
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