Expertise

Aequita specializes in the steadily growing and evolving fields of climate adaptation and resilience. Our firm provides services in adaptation practice spaces that include energy resilience, extreme heat planning, finance and insurance, locally led adaptation, nature-based solutions, and urban resilience. Aequita has worked across diverse geographies and scales, including Asia and North America, bringing multi-hazard and multi-context experience. Client work includes the development of white papers for research and policy actors, philanthropic advising, and advisory services, and program development, and implementation support to government clients. Aequita approaches adaptation drawing on a transformative and equity-oriented framework.

Aequita has capacities in inclusive urbanization, urban sustainability, and urban resilience. Projects include advising on the design and launch of a global urban innovation prize, research and writing, and strategy development for new program work. In addition to subject matter expertise on cities and localities, the team is skilled in multistakeholder engagement and process design.

Applied across a range of geographies and across scales, Aequita has expertise in environmental sustainability and sustainable development with an environmental justice lens. Aequita has provided program strategy and review services, framework development, and research and analysis for international organizations, philanthropies, and leaders in community finance. In addition to sector specific work in air quality, transportation, climate, urban environments, and water supply and sanitation, Aequita brings a background in institutions, process design, and governance.

Across a range of topics related to energy and climate, Aequita provides strategy, research, and advisory services to philanthropic clients. Clients range from large private foundations to family offices to operating foundations. Aequita has expertise in program and portfolio strategy, institution and field building, and grant-making design and management.