Why investing for adaptation may be crucial

The past decade has seen climate change take centre stage in investor circles. The focus of action is almost always on ‘mitigation’ – investing in the technologies and activities that can reduce emissions to reduce the amount of warming that happens. This is absolutely vital work. However, there is another side of the climate change action coin that gets much less attention but is crucial in its own right: adaptation. In this document, Redwheel’s Amanda O’Toole and thematic research team, provides an overview of critical factors investors should be aware of and why climate adaptation is an underappreciated...