Theme: Climate Resilience
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions – or C2ES – forges practical and innovative solutions to address climate change and engages with leading businesses to accelerate climate progress. Founded in 1998 as the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, C2ES is known worldwide as a thought leader and trusted convener on climate change and energy.
What the Partnership will do
C2ES and Resilience First are working together to deliver a climate resilience programme that
The partnership between C2ES and Resilience First has the following objectives:
- Build a business case for climate resilience: To understand and in turn actively create an easily understandable value proposition for businesses to prioritise and adopt robust resilience measures.
- Educate companies and foster peer exchange to drive transformative change: To create opportunities that assist businesses in their journey towards transformative action on climate resilience through information sharing and peer exchange.
- Provide opportunities to participate in each other’s public events to showcase luminaries and best practice: To highlight work of C2ES and/or Resilience First, and companies leading on climate resilience, helping to create a competition for businesses to “race to the top”.
- Provide input to the development of standards and guidance related to building climate resilience within companies.