Resilience First is the world’s largest global business network. It provides the ways and means to harness the collective will of our members to drive resilience at scale in a world facing deep uncertainties and complex interdependencies. We do this by enabling businesses to collaborate, share and co-create resilience and sustainable best practice for mutual benefit and that of society.
Resilience First is delighted to have joined UNFCCC’s Race to Resilience initiative with the aim to drive a business-led approach to realising climate resilience best practice globally.
Your business can impact vulnerable communities
Communities gain from resilient businesses. A community’s resilience is enhanced when local businesses can keep running in emergencies, providing continued support, activity and access to critical services, such as utilities, transport, communications, retail and banking, as well as direct employment. A breakdown in supply could lead to additional devastating and stressful consequences for local communities.
Businesses in turn benefit from greater resilience in the form of minimising risk and enhancing their ability to invest and innovate, which benefit local communities.
Please join us at this breakfast briefing to find out how your business can make a difference.
Guest speakers:
Payal Thadani, Business Engagement Team, Race to Resilience, UNFCCC’s High Level Climate Champions Team
Peter Hall, VP, Global Director for Sustainable & Resilient Infrastructure, Wood plc
Mike Rooney, Chief Executive, Resilience First (Chair)
Resilience First’s remarks: Beena Chester, Director of Operations and Communications
Kindly hosted by Wood plc.
Upcoming events
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London Business Networks for Resilience Launch Event | Connected for Resilience
Thursday 29 May, 8:30 for 9:00-10:30, LondonResilience First is pleased to convene its members and the capital’s leading business networks for Connected for Resilience on Thursday 29 May.
This is the launch event for the new initiative, London Business Networks for Resilience, supported by London Resilience and delivered by Resilience First, which aims to strengthen the resilience, emergency preparedness, and crisis response capacity of businesses across London.
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In-Person Event: Resilience Amidst Geopolitical Upheaval
Wednesday 4 June, 08:30-14:30, central LondonJoin Resilience First for our in-person session on geostrategic resilience in practise: a half day event for resilience practitioners.
To culminate the Geopolitical Resilience programme curated by Resilience First and PwC, we are delighted to invite you to an exclusive in-person event on Geopolitical Resilience, hosted at PwC’s Embankment Place offices.
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Climate Resilience Foresight Series
From March to November 2025Resilience First (RF) and Washington DC-based think-tank The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) have partnered to curate and deliver a corporate dialogue programme: Climate Resilience Foresight Series.
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.