New York Climate Week 2026
September 20-27 | New York, NY
Join us for events we’re co-hosting focused on bringing university-originated research to market and on heat tech, and find our team at several other resilience tech events throughout the week. Click here to find our full schedule and register for our events.
Newsletters
What is Maladaptation and Why is it Important?
July 10, 2026 | Tailwind Futures
. July 2026 Tailwind Futures invests in technologies that help corporations futureproof the infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain of today and tomorrow. Maladaptation Diligence Toolkit We’re excited to announce our new toolkit to help investors identify the most effective and impactful A&R solutions and get them to the people and communities who need them most. …
Identifying Genes Driving Resilience: A Breakthrough Technology for Ag and Health
June 11, 2026 | Tailwind Futures
. June 2026 Tailwind Futures invests in technologies that help corporations futureproof the infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain of today and tomorrow. From Lab to Market: Genomics for Climate Resilience In this fourth installment of our Resilience Game Changers series, we turn to genomics and gene editing. Sequencing a human’s genome has rapidly transformed from …
Temperature Responsive Medical Devices: A Breakthrough Technology for Health
May 14, 2026 | Tailwind Futures
May 2026 Tailwind Futures invests in technologies that help corporations futureproof the infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain of today and tomorrow. From Lab to Market: 4D Printing In the third installment of our Resilience Game Changers series, we turn to 4D printing. This technology uses additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing, to produce objects capable …
Pulling Water From Desert Air: A Breakthrough Technology For Water Stress
April 16, 2026 | Tailwind Futures
. . April 2026 Tailwind Futures invests in technologies that help corporations futureproof the infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain of today and tomorrow. New Speakers Announced! Our Events Next Week Built to Last: Resilience Tech and the Future of Corporate Buildings & Commercial Real Estate April 22, 2026, 9am-12pm PT in San Francisco + Livestream …
Cooling Without Energy: A Breakthrough Technology for Heat
March 12, 2026 | Tailwind Futures
.. March 2026 Tailwind Futures invests in technologies that help corporations futureproof the infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain of today and tomorrow. From Lab to Market: Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling In this first installment of our new series on Resilience Game Changers, we explore technologies and scientific developments that can dramatically accelerate or improve how …
Climate Shocks Are Here. Is Canada’s Tech Ecosystem Ready?
February 9, 2026 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Market Insights: Opportunities for Canadian Resilience Tech Startups Canadian Adaptation & Resilience Innovation Playbook MaRS Discovery District and Tailwind Futures published the Canadian Adaptation and Resilience Innovation Playbook, establishing a baseline for Canada’s emerging “adaptech” sector. The Playbook maps public and private demand alongside startup activity and capital stack to identify where climate risk awareness …
What’s Hot for Resilience Tech? Our Predictions for 2026.
January 14, 2026 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Our Predictions for 2026 What will be the key drivers of demand for adaptation and resilience solutions in 2026? We put our heads together and identified four key trends: Geopolitics AI Insurance Return on Investment Tailwind Futures Welcomes New Managing Partner Arindam Bhattaharya joins as Managing Partner We’re thrilled to welcome Arindam …
Potential for Overshooting 1.5°C Puts Adaptation in the COP Spotlight
December 4, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Market Insights Potential for Overshooting 1.5°C Puts Adaptation in the COP Spotlight COP 30, the United Nations’ annual climate negotiations, wrapped up late November, leaving many parties frustrated with what they see as limited or disjointed progress towards implementation of climate goals. Despite the difficulties in building consensus on how to …
Resilience as a Competitive Advantage
November 7, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
How investors are finding alpha in adaptation Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Market Insights Physical climate risk is influencing cost of capital Climate adaptation solutions to exceed revenue projections based on historical trends by 61% – GIC & Bain The Prepare and Repair Index already outperforms Join us in Tokyo! Join us in Tokyo on November 18 …
49 Climate Resilience Technologies, A $1T Market By 2050
October 8, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Market Insights McKinsey sized the market for climate resilience technologies at up to $1 trillion by 2030. Moody’s found that climate adaptation can support credit strength. Marsh released its annual Climate Adaptation Report. The 2025 survey of major private sector organizations found that: Tailwind Updates Recent Events New York Climate Week saw more …
Join us in NY! Our Climate Week NYC Events
September 3, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
Join us in New York! We’re excited to announce Climate Resilience Week during Climate Week NYC, a joint initiative from Tailwind Futures, the Global Adaptation & Resilience Investment Working Group (GARI), The Resiliency Company, Resilience Investments, The Lightsmith Group, and the Climate Policy Initiative. Our Events: Monday, September 22: The Adaptation Forum (12-6pm EDT) Kick off your week with a high-energy day of programming …
Investing in Supply Chain Resilience: The Case of Copper
August 4, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Market Insights Droughts in key copper-mining regions are increasing due to climate change, threatening the already-strained copper supply. At the same time, demand for copper is surging, driven by skyrocketing demand for datacenters to support AI models, a real estate and construction sector that uses more copper than ever before in the built environment, and an energy sector …
Climate Impacts a Concern for Economic Stability: Ministries of Finance
June 27, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Market Insights Bloomberg Intelligence found that US Spending on Climate Damage Nears $1 Trillion Per Year. These rising costs are increasingly recognized by Finance Ministers as a major concern for the economy, found a Global Survey of Ministries of Finance conducted by the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action. Investors, however, are seeing …
GIC & Bain, Temasek & BCG – The Adaptation Investment Opportunity
May 31, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Market Insights GIC and Bain released a new report: Sizing the Inevitable Investment Opportunity: Climate Adaptation. Temasek and BCG covered the state of private equity for A&R: The Private Equity Opportunity in Climate Adaptation and Resilience Urban Land Institute (ULI) released a roadmap for wildfire recovery in LA: Project Recovery: Rebuilding Los Angeles after …
The Public Sector Steps Back From Resilience. The Private Sector Must Step Up.
April 30, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Tailwind’s Perspective April was a hard month for professionals in climate adaptation and resilience. Weather and climate research were hit especially hard. NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) was affected by federal employee terminations, leading to understaffed offices that directly impacted NWS’s ability to monitor weather as effectively in certain parts of the …
The Adaptation Finance Primer & Our New Monthly Newsletter
March 28, 2025 | Tailwind Futures
Tailwind Futures Monthly Newsletter Welcome to our new monthly newsletter! With major political changes pulling funding from critical climate and community initiatives, the need to scale innovations that bolster the resilience of all communities is only becoming more urgent. Thank you for your energy, support, and perseverance to continue moving adaptation and resilience innovation forward. We’re ready …
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