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Daniel Schmitz-Remberg On Getting Adaptation Into the Corporate Budget

2026-10-0641:42

Getting a corporate board to fund climate resilience is hard. Getting employees further down the ladder to raise the subject at all may be harder. Daniel Schmitz-Remberg ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-schmitz-remberg/ ) thinks he has the solution...

CWNYC 2026: Securing Growth in a Resource-Constrained World

2026-09-2953:31

Editor’s Note 9/30/26: The original version of this episode used inferior audio and was enhanced using editing software in a way that distorted the voices of the guests at times. The audio has since been replaced with an unenhanced version. I apologize...

Dave Jones On California's Wildfire Liability Deadlock

2026-09-2245:44

California built a roughly $20 billion fund to keep its utilities solvent after their equipment burns down towns. Last year, the Los Angeles inferno nearly drained it — and a few weeks ago the state government's scramble to amend the wildfire liability...

Karl Mallon On Combating 'Climate Risk Washing'

2026-09-1552:34

With a cannot-be-missed deadline approaching for a VIP client, Karl Mallon’s team at physical risk analytics provider XDI found a mistake in data they’d already prepared to deliver. The debate inside the company: quietly ship it and hope no one noticed...

Dan Ward On What AI Can — and Can't — Do for Cat Models

2026-09-0838:19

AI is disrupting everything — including how we estimate the financial shock of extreme weather events. For decades, insurers, reinsurers, and other financial institutions have relied on catastrophe (or ‘cat’) models to gauge potential losses from hurri...

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