Financing Climate Adaptation, with Rudy Salo

We discuss the public finance of climate adaptation, with focus on flood insurance, catastrophe funds, and the complicated role of tax-exempt bond income. Rudy Salo of Nixon Peabody offers his bond lawyer take on building back better after natural disasters, the politics of climate risk disclosure, and a future of "sexy infrastructure." Nancy from Asheville, NC asks: "Why are fiscal year starts and ends so different across states, localities, and the federal government?"