Resilience First (RF) and Washington DC-based think-tank The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) have partnered to curate and deliver a year-long programme: Climate Resilience Foresight Series.

This members-only series of six sessions (virtual and in-person) is designed to:

  • Equip companies with knowledge and tools to integrate climate resilience into corporate strategies to build organisational resilience.
  • Strengthen an emerging community of practice among the private sector.
  • Inform a framework for corporate climate resilience leadership.

By combining expertise and leveraging extensive global networks of businesses, RF and C2ES are convening leading companies to examine how climate change is a threat multiplier in a 2- and 3-degree world, and how businesses can strengthen their climate resilience across five organisational dimensions:

  1. Environment: the consequences of climate change on the natural resources on which a company depends, and a company’s own impact on the natural environment.
  2. Infrastructure and Operations: essential functions and processes across its operations, assets and supply chain infrastructure.
  3. Workforce: climate impacts on a company’s workforce (e.g., productivity, well-being) in company-owned operations
  4. Finance: an ability of companies to absorb financial losses, access to liquidity, and maintain capital resulting from climate change stressors and impacts.
  5. Social and External Ecosystems: engagement with communities, shareholders, and other key stakeholder audience in how companies’ build resilient to climate risks and impacts.

Each 1.5-hour virtual session will introduce and explore a key dimension of organisational resilience and feature leading experts and companies to kickstart facilitated dialogues. The format will encourage individual reflection and peer-to-peer sharing, with sessions held under the Chatham House rule to promote candid discussion.

Overarching insights from the series discussions will be collected and anonymised in a whitepaper to be shared publicly to advance private sector action more broadly.

ONLINE EVENTS

Representatives from participating companies are invited to join the full slate of dialogues to benefit from the curated arc of programming and develop their network of other resilience practitioners across global companies. Participants are invited to actively engage and offer candid insights and perspectives.

Corporate Dialogue #1: Environment | 20 March, 14:00-15:30 GMT | 10:00-11:30 ET, Zoom
We will explore how companies are approaching the impacts of climate change on the natural resources that their organisations rely on.

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Corporate Dialogue #2: Infrastructure and Operations | 3 April, 15:00-16:30 BST | 10:00 -11:30 ET, Zoom
We will examine how companies are approaching climate impacts that disrupt a company’s operations, supply chains, key infrastructure, physical assets and service delivery.

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Corporate Dialogue #3: Workforce | 13 May, 15:00-16:30 BST | 10:00-11:30 ET, Zoom
We will focus on how companies are approaching climate impacts on their workforces and human-led operations.

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Corporate Dialogue #4: Finance (and Governance) | 5 June, 15:00-16:30 BST| 10:00-11:30 ET, Zoom
We will consider how companies are approaching the impact of climate change on the financial resilience of their organisation

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Questions to be discussed among participating companies will include:

  • What are the most important climate-related impacts to consider for each of the organisational dimensions, and why?
  • What has your company already done to anticipate and reduce the impacts on each dimension? Where do you have information and knowledge gaps?
  • What are the barriers and opportunities to anticipating, absorbing, and adapting to these impacts that you see from your vantage point?
  • What else would your company need to do to anticipate and reduce impacts? What needs to be true for your company to implement these measures?

IN-PERSON EVENTS

Corporate Dialogue #5: Social/External Ecosystems | w/c 23 June, during London Climate Action Week
We will host an in-person multi-stakeholder session to explore how a company’s resilience is impacted by external social relationships and societal resilience and the approaches companies are taking to engage communities on the impacts of climate change.

Corporate Dialogue #6: Synthesizing findings | w/c 22 September, during Climate Week NYC
We will bring together the key insights and learnings from the dialogue series, exploring how governance can play a key role in addressing vulnerabilities to climate impacts and enhancing climate resilience capabilities.

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