Description
Climate Change Business Journal Volume XIX, Numbers 7-8-9: Q3 2026 Adaptation & Resilience
CCBJ estimated the global climate change industry at $3.59 trillion in 2024, up 14% from 2023. Adaptation & Resilience accounted for $34.6 billion, or 1% of total global climate-industry revenues, compared with hundreds of billions of dollars each in renewable power, efficiency, green buildings and more than $1.6 trillion in transportation as the largest segment (as quantified in the Q2 2026 edition of CCBJ). Nevertheless, the A&R segment grew 18% in 2024, faster than the overall global climate industry in 2024 and considerably faster than all the GHG mitigation related categories. . Adaptation & Resilience is no longer primarily a market for vulnerability studies and climate plans, although still the vast majority of projects are in this category as a growing proportion of activity and revenue generation is associated with designing and physically delivering on designing and building projects. CCBJ’s market assessments include segmented detail and time series growth in three categories: the global and U.S. climate change industry; the adaptation & resilience segment; and climate change industry consulting & engineering that includes mitigation.
Adaptation & Resilience 2026
CCBJ’s annual assessment of climate change adaptation & resilience markets forecasts little slowing in demand, a growing breadth of clients and a clear move towards implementation of adaptive resilience assets. 1-9
Reinsurance Leaders Impact Insurance Coverage and Demand for Professional Services; Unlocking Private Capital to Scale Adaptation & Resilience 10
CDM Smith Sees Water Resilience Market Shifting To Implementation and Climate-Informed Design 16
GSI Environmental Connects Sustainability Strategy With Applied Environmental Science and Engineering 22
Arcadis Moves Adaptation & Resilience Client Projects From Risk Assessment To Capital Investment 29
ClimateAi Moves Climate Intelligence Into Day-To-Day Business Decisions 34
BWD Strategic Works With Clients for Resilience to Become a Corporate Strategy and Capital Allocation Issue 37
Advanced Engineering & Design Moves Florida Resilience From Planning Into Actual Infrastructure Design 40
CIS Sees the Resilience Market Shifting From Planning To Turnkey Infrastructure Delivery 42
AMWA Says Water Utilities Needs to Balance Climate Resilience With Massive Capital Needs 46
SCS Sees Brownfields as an Overlooked Climate Asset for Communities 49
TRC Climate Financial Risk and Resilience Practice Moves Physical Climate Risk Into Investment Valuation 52
C40 City Mayors Now View Adaptation & Resilience as a Core Urban Service Delivery Priority 55
Community Environmental Council: Resilience Hubs Move From Emergency Response To Year-Round Community Infrastructure 58
Marstel-Day Leads a Coastal Resilience Shift from Risk Analysis and Planning to Adaptable Implementation 61
CCBJ Webcast: Assessing Climate Risk: Practice Leaders and Funding Sources in Adaptation & Resilience Markets 66
Integral Consulting Migrates Coastal Resilience From Vulnerability Studies to Adaptive Implementation 70
Advisors Next Door Leads the Caribbean Adaptation & Resilience Market 79
Exhibits in this edition
Climate Change Industry: Percentage of Revenues in Mitigation vs. Adaptation & Resilience, 2005-2080
USA Climate Change A&R Consulting & Engineering, 2010-27 ($mil)
USA Mitigation vs. Adaptation & Resilience Growth 2004-2028
The Global Climate Change Industry in 2022-2024 ($bil)
The USA Climate Change Industry in 2022-2024 ($bil)
The USA Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience Industry in 2022-2025 ($mil)
U.S. Climate Change Industry Consulting & Engineering, 2022-2025 ($bil)
Climate Change Industry Consulting & Engineering Segment Definitions
U.S. Climate Change A&R Services by Client, 2022-2025 ($mil)
Swiss Re Data on Global Natural Catastrophe Insured Losses ($bil)
Global Risks Ranked by Severity: Short Term (2 years) and Long Term (10 years)
Main Challenges in Assessing Climate-Related Physical Risks
Food Price Volatility: Climate Risks for the Food Industry
Evolution of Reinsurance Premiums (RoL or Rate-on-Line index)
Corporate Water-Sector Capex is on the Rise
Sectoral Distribution of Adaptation Finance Needs by Region. Shown as a Percentage of Total Reported Adaptation Finance Needs for Each Respective Region
