With the largest Climate Week NYC on record upon us, discussions on climate resilience, adaptation, project finance, and “frontier tech” are taking center stage in workshops, panels, and fundraising pitches across the city. These conversations and plenaries tend to focus on “big bets”: higher-risk, high-reward moves with potential for global impact. However, the discourse this week should also be about investing in the city’s working waterfront because it is both a smart climate policy and a winning workforce model.

As climate change forces us to confront coastal flooding and superstorms, we need to rethink how we redevelop and manage the city’s 520 miles of coastline. There is a clear opportunity to leverage the city’s waterways for efficient transportation of people and goods, reduce truck congestion on our overcrowded highways,........

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