BSR Insight | Practical Frameworks to Help Business Prepare for Climate Change
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Ryan Schuchard, Manager, Climate and Energy
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August 31, 2010
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While it's impossible to predict the exact impacts climate change will have on business, several practical frameworks are designed to help managers understand and prepare for climate change:
- UK-based Acclimatise's briefing paper: Introduces adaptation to business and offers questions that accountants should discuss with senior executives
- Alberta Sustainable Resource Development's framework: Shows how companies and other organizations can conduct vulnerability and risk assessments and identify adaptation options
- Economics of Climate Adaptation Working Group's report: Provides development practitioners a framework to identify risk, calculate expected loss, and build and implement a response portfolio
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change's 101 guide: Provides an introduction to key adaptation issues for business and outlines screening questions to evaluate potential climate impacts
- Risk Management Solutions' Guide to Catastrophe Modeling: Explains the components of catastrophe modeling, which include defining hazard types, assessing hazard levels, quantifying physical impacts, and measuring monetary losses
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