When viewing our cities around the world lit up at night from vantage points such as the International Space Station, it helps us visualize how connected our communities are, but more importantly how fragile those connections can be when hazards such as hurricanes, fires, floods, earthquakes, landslides, or tsunamis threaten. There were 22 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States along.

 

And these financial metrics relentlessly remind us that climate risk is financial risk.