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Oliver Marchand On Why Adaptation Needs A New 'Decision Engine'
This episode is sponsored by Resilens, a "decision engine" for climate adaptation
When adaptation managers approach funders with a climate-proofing measure, there's one question they can count on hearing: "What's the return on this investment?"
It's a question that Oliver Marchand is determined to answer
Oliver is the CEO and co-founder of Resilens, a new start-up that styles itself as a "decision engine" for adaptation — one able to calculate the real-world costs and benefits of adaptation measures. He wants to give adaptation practitioners something they've never had access to before: an all-in-one system for transforming climate data into prioritized, fundable investment plans.
Oliver is no newcomer to climate tech. In this episode, he talks us through his previous adventures with Carbon Delta, the climate risk analytics firm he co-founded and sold to MSCI in 2019, and shares his thoughts on what the sector got right — and wrong — over the past decade.
He also offers his thesis on what's holding back investment in adaptation, and why standardizing "adaptation return" may be essential to unlocking the capital desperately needed to prepare and protect from worsening climate shocks.
If you're an adaptation practitioner, wannabe adaptech founder, or work in climate finance, this is an episode you don't want to miss.
Climate Proof has also partnered with Resilens to publish a manifesto on why adaptation needs a new decision logic. Read it HERE
Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 Oliver's Origin Story
00:03:30 Carbon Delta and the MSCI Years
00:04:30 What Climate Tech Got Right — and Wrong
00:07:00 Converting a Sceptic: The Case for Adaptation
00:08:30 The Rise of the Adaptation Manager
00:11:00 Introducing Resilens
00:13:30 Why Social Infrastructure and Heat?
00:15:30 The Competitive Moat
00:16:30 Theory of Change
00:19:00 Life Before Resilens: "Death by PDF"
00:25:00 The Data Security Question
00:27:30 Valuing the Unquantifiable
00:29:30 The Five-Year Vision
00:31:30 How to Find Oliver and Resilens
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By Climate ProofThis episode is sponsored by Resilens, a "decision engine" for climate adaptation
When adaptation managers approach funders with a climate-proofing measure, there's one question they can count on hearing: "What's the return on this investment?"
It's a question that Oliver Marchand is determined to answer
Oliver is the CEO and co-founder of Resilens, a new start-up that styles itself as a "decision engine" for adaptation — one able to calculate the real-world costs and benefits of adaptation measures. He wants to give adaptation practitioners something they've never had access to before: an all-in-one system for transforming climate data into prioritized, fundable investment plans.
Oliver is no newcomer to climate tech. In this episode, he talks us through his previous adventures with Carbon Delta, the climate risk analytics firm he co-founded and sold to MSCI in 2019, and shares his thoughts on what the sector got right — and wrong — over the past decade.
He also offers his thesis on what's holding back investment in adaptation, and why standardizing "adaptation return" may be essential to unlocking the capital desperately needed to prepare and protect from worsening climate shocks.
If you're an adaptation practitioner, wannabe adaptech founder, or work in climate finance, this is an episode you don't want to miss.
Climate Proof has also partnered with Resilens to publish a manifesto on why adaptation needs a new decision logic. Read it HERE
Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 Oliver's Origin Story
00:03:30 Carbon Delta and the MSCI Years
00:04:30 What Climate Tech Got Right — and Wrong
00:07:00 Converting a Sceptic: The Case for Adaptation
00:08:30 The Rise of the Adaptation Manager
00:11:00 Introducing Resilens
00:13:30 Why Social Infrastructure and Heat?
00:15:30 The Competitive Moat
00:16:30 Theory of Change
00:19:00 Life Before Resilens: "Death by PDF"
00:25:00 The Data Security Question
00:27:30 Valuing the Unquantifiable
00:29:30 The Five-Year Vision
00:31:30 How to Find Oliver and Resilens