How Cities Are Paying for Climate Resilience

Originally aired October 10, 2019

Vanguard municipalities are finding replicable ways to pay for climate resilience investments. Cities that have begun implementing climate resilience projects have used distinct strategies to obtain public and private financial resources that pay for large-scale climate-resilience — strategies that amount to a “Playbook 1.0” for deciding who will pay what and how city governments will generate the needed revenue. City leaders and professionals supporting resilience in hundreds of cities around the globe explore the leading-edge of urban climate-resilience financing practices and what they foreshadow for other cities.

Speakers

Joyce Coffee

Founder & President, Climate Resilience Consulting

Joyce Coffee, LEED AP, is founder and President of Climate Resilience Consulting, a Certified B Corp. She has over 25 years of domestic and international experience implementing resilience and sustainability strategies, management systems, performance measurement, partnerships, benchmarking, and reporting. She is the author of the Climate Adaptation Exchange Blog and Money for Resilient Infrastructure: How to Finance America’s Climate Changed Future.

John Cleveland

President & Founder, Innovation Network for Communities

John Cleveland is the author of Life After Carbon and President and a founder of the Innovation Network for Communities, a national non-profit whose mission is to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems. He has worked for over 30 years in human, social, and natural capital formation strategies, sustainable development, green building design, and economic development. He also serves as the part-time Executive Director for the Boston Green Ribbon Commission.

Samuel Carter

Founding Principal, Resilient Cities Catalyst

Sam Carter is a Founding Principal of Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC), serving as RCC’s lead on climate and urban transformation. He leads strategic partnerships including the Resilience Accelerator with Columbia University’s Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes and The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Southern California Resilience Initiative with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Sam was previously a Director at 100 Resilient Cities, where he served on the Executive Team. He has also taught at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and NYU’s Stern School of Business.