Resilience First (RF) and Washington DC-based think-tank The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) have partnered to strengthen organisations’ resilience to the impacts of climate change through a series of virtual and in-person dialogues.
The Climate Resilience Foresight Series, which kicked off with a public webinar (recording here) in March 2025, 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 captured in RF’s Model for Organisational Resilience:
- Environment: references companies’ dependence on the natural environment contribution to the use of natural resources
- Infrastructure and Operations: includes built environment and supply chain infrastructure
- Workforce: includes the workforce in company-owned operations
- Finance: references a company’s financial stability and impacts from climate change
- Social and External Ecosystems: includes impacts on and engagement with communities, shareholders, and other key stakeholder audiences
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.
We highly recommend attending the entire series to fully benefit from the programme.
If you are interested in participating in our programme, contact Theo Bachrach at contact@resiliencefirst.co.uk for more details.
ONLINE EVENTS
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.
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 operations, supply chains, key infrastructure, physical assets and service delivery.
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.
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
IN-PERSON EVENTS
Corporate Dialogue #5: Social/External Ecosystems |26 June, 08:30 – 12:00, during London Climate Action Week
Kindly hosted by Zurich Resilience Solutions, the roundtable will bring together resilience experts and practitioners to explore how trust, partnerships, and social capital play a crucial role in helping organisations withstand and adapt to climate shocks.
Corporate Dialogue #6: Synthesising findings | w/c 22 September, during Climate Week NYC
We will combine the key insights and lessons from the dialogue series, exploring how governance can play a key role in addressing vulnerabilities to climate impacts and enhancing climate resilience capabilities.
