Everybody in the Pool E123: Why Adaptation Is Unavoidable (And Investable)
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Feb 19, 2026 Niall Murphy, co-founder and managing partner at Morphosis who builds investable climate adaptation strategies. He reframes adaptation as an emerging market and investment opportunity. Topics include why adaptation is essential beyond 1.5°C, how private capital and insurers are mobilizing, Morphosis’s adaptation index and financing structures, and real-world investable solutions like solar-filtering polymers and micro-desalination.
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The 1.5°C Reality
- We are living beyond 1.5°C, so climate changes are systemic and persistent.
- Adaptation must become a central theme because those changes are not transient.
Reframe Adaptation As Demand
- Adaptation has been framed as a funding gap dominated by public money, which cannot scale.
- Reframe adaptation as emerging demand markets and investable opportunities for private capital.
Adaptation Is Transversal
- Adaptation is a transversal economy issue, not a department-specific problem.
- Transformative adaptation requires systems that can move with ongoing climate changes, not just fortify the past.