Founded in 2019, Climate Adaptive Infrastructure (CAI) is an infrastructure investment firm that specializes in low-carbon real assets. These assets span the energy, water, and urban infrastructure sectors and aim to mitigate both the structural risks and economic pressures associated with climate change.
The firm seeks investments across core infrastructure assets that enhance both sustainability and quality of life for the world's expanding population. To achieve this, CAI selects, finances, constructs and manages its investments using climate screens and metrics designed to enhance investment returns and reduce carbon emissions. We believe that this critical development is essential to building resilient communities and tackling the global climate crisis.
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Investing to Accelerate Deep Decarbonization. CAI invests in infrastructure, designed from the outset to address the critical challenges we face in decarbonizing our energy, water and urban infrastructure systems. Low-carbon infrastructure designed to mitigate the structural risks and economic pressures of the climate crisis.
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