Business strategies for climate resilient organisations

Understand and limit the disruptive impact of increasing natural hazards and keep your operations, assets, and processes optimised as the climate changes.
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Climate change is accelerating. And as it does, weather and natural hazards are becoming more frequent and severe. To protect your organisation from the impacts of climate change – whether it is a port, airport, industrial site, water or energy utility, or something else –, you need to understand both the threat to your physical assets and to your business operations. 

If you want to ensure business continuity, protect critical assets, avoid unforeseen costs, and identify new opportunities, you need a strategic and integrated approach to building your climate and weather resilience. However, understanding your climate risk across a multitude of potential scenarios is a complex undertaking.

Different natural hazards like heat waves, heavy precipitation, and extreme drought will affect your organisation in a variety of ways. Any damage to buildings and infrastructure, transport or supplier disruption, and necessary closures to protect people will impact your bottom line. And legislators and investors are increasing their pressure on you to make your climate risk transparent to them.

One step ahead of climate change

When you need to navigate all of this, the support of an expert partner is invaluable.

At Royal HaskoningDHV, we can provide comprehensive insights into 17 different natural hazards – across one location or thousands worldwide. And crucially, with 140 years of engineering experience behind us, we can tell you exactly what parts of your business are vulnerable to them. 

We can help you create your business strategy with business performance impact. Together, we can make both short- and long-term adaptive decisions to keep you one step ahead of climate change.

Our offerings

Our business strategy for climate resilient organisations services include:

  • Climate change and weather hazard assessment and identify vulnerabilities and potential risks
  • Training and education programs to understand the impacts of climate change
  • Climate adaptation planning including business case and impact analysis
  • Stakeholder management, process guidance, and communication

Manage climate risk and enhance business resilience

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Understand and adapt to climate risks at scale
Identify which natural hazards your sites and processes are exposed to, determine how they may affect your business, and respond strategically for long-term resilience. We will help you stay in business by helping you understand your climate risks and how to respond and protect your assets, sites, and people in a cost-efficient way.
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Enhance climate risk transparency to satisfy regulators and investors
Deliver the climate risk transparency your regulators and investors demand, including comprehensive threat visibility into 17 different natural hazards. Our support will help you compare and prioritise adaption investments based on specific vulnerabilities across your sites and processes.
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Unlock strategic decision-making for lasting resilience
Build a long-term, cost-effective strategy to make climate and weather conditions an integral part of all your business decisions, nut just risk management. Continuously limit unforeseen costs and reputational damage, increase your business continuity, identify new opportunities. And extend this to your whole value and supply chain and reduce the systemic risk.
Want to know more or got a question? - Contact our Climate Resilience experts!

Want to know moreor got a question?

Contact our Climate Resilience experts!