What We Do
The Climate-Resilient Insurance Strategy Project (CRISP) brings people together to find ways forward through the property insurance crisis.
The challenges of property insurance and climate change constitute a “wicked problem” that cannot be solved by any single actor or any quick fix.
To find our path to a more resilient future, we must engage many different kinds of expertise and decision-makers - and learn together.
CRISP fosters these convergences. We design and facilitate highly participatory events at which stakeholders from different sectors can share knowledge, build relationships, and collaboratively design and pursue strategies for a more resilient future.
The only way out is through - and the only way through is the way we build together.
The 2024 Miami-Dade Property Insurance Strategy Forum brought together 70+ representatives from across sectors and communities to co-create responses to Florida’s climate risk and insurability challenges.
Our Portfolio
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The Miami-Dade Property Insurance Strategy Forum
We worked with the Miami-Dade County Mayor’s Office to design and host the 2024 Property Insurance Strategy Forum – kicking off a new, cross-sector conversation among key stakeholders about the emerging property insurance crisis in Miami, South Florida, and beyond. Read this report that summarizes our findings from this event.
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The Boston Green Ribbon Commission's Insurance Convening
In October 2024, we helped the Boston Green Ribbon Commission facilitate a rapid series of multi-stakeholder dialogues about the challenges and opportunities to coordinate action around climate risk mitigation and insurance affordability in Boston and Massachusetts as a whole. Read the resulting memo here.
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Op-Ed: Affordable insurance should not be our ultimate goal. We need to address the underlying risk
The insurance affordability crisis demands responses that first and foremost prioritize resilience. We write about the need for a new approach to physical climate risk management that goes beyond just finding ways to lower insurance premiums. Read the op-ed here.
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Blog: Insurance is political: How property insurance shapes climate adaptation
How property insurance, depending on how it is deployed, can either intentionally shape the necessary adaptation, or negligently lead to maladaptation of the built environment. It is a political tool in the climate adaptation toolkit. Wallis writes about her research at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose - read the blog here.
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Blog: Insurance 101: Why We Care
Without insurance, investors don’t invest, projects don’t get funded, and buildings don’t get built. Kate writes about why insurance matters for both climate adaptation and decarbonization. Read the blog here.
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Blog: Insurance 102: Retreat from Climate Risk
Amid fires, floods and windstorms, will the insurance industry emerge as a hero? Read Kate’s blog in which she describes the mechanics of what’s happening with climate, insurance and property markets, and then takes a look at some solutions.
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Blog: Facing the crisis of insurance in Miami and beyond: polycentric strategies for a risky world
Greg tells the story of how the Miami strategy forum happened in the first place, and shares his key takeaways from it. Read the blog here.