Economic Architecture The Podcast
Green banks pioneering market-based resilience [Episode 43]
In this week’s episode, Laura Mondragón shares why financing resilience doesn’t necessarily sound as sexy as the wonders of the solar system. As the Senior Director of climate resilience and adaption at the Montgomery County Green Bank, Laura’s work to scale resilience projects comes with an innovative approach to integrating technical assistance with portfolio management to pioneer market-based resilience. Host Stuart Yasgur and Laura Mondragón discuss how a brick-by-brick approach to resilience is necessary, how project aggregation is essential to improving market scale for resilience work, and why Green Banks…
In this week’s episode, Laura Mondragón shares why financing resilience doesn’t necessarily sound as sexy as the wonders of the solar system. As the Senior Director of climate resilience and adaption at the Montgomery County Green Bank, Laura’s work to scale resilience projects comes with an innovative approach to integrating technical assistance with portfolio management to pioneer market-based resilience.
Host Stuart Yasgur and Laura Mondragón discuss how a brick-by-brick approach to resilience is necessary, how project aggregation is essential to improving market scale for resilience work, and why Green Banks local investment models have the potential to scale and improve capital flow towards resilience projects.
Learn more about the Montgomery County Green Bank: https://mcgreenbank.org/
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