Donald Trump’s return to the White House portends a sharp pullback in environmental regulation, particularly greenhouse gas emissions reporting. Combined with another COP summit that warned of accelerating “climate emergency,” we can expect climate volatility to increase in the years ahead in terms of the magnitude of floods, fires, heatwaves, droughts and hurricanes. Technology will play an ever more vital role in managing emissions through accelerated electrification of key industries, but there is no doubt that many places are losing the race against time.
The logical conclusion is that far more resources should be devoted to adaptation rather than only mitigation. Whereas in the past, emphasizing adaptation was viewed as moral hazard, today it is clearly both reckless and immoral to not invest in physical measures ranging from new infrastructure to relocation. Here again, both the COP29 summit and national policies are falling woefully short.
By measuring both the climate physical risk and adaptation capacity of every location on Earth, AlphaGeo guides homeowners, communities, towns, cities and entire countries on precisely which adaptation investments are needed where in order to build true resilience.
Our formula: Risk less Adaptation equals Resilience.
A CapEx boom in infrastructure and housing is getting underway in America, a national retrofit to prepare for a larger population and a revitalized industrial base. To get this supercycle right, government agencies, investors and businesses need to take the long view of how to engineer true resilience.
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