How can your company adapt to these changes to minimise the impact of climate change? The earlier you plan for adaptation, the less it will cost and the better equipped your company will be to cope with potential changes. The UK government has produced a paper called UK Climate change risk assessment: Government report which list 100 potential impacts covering 5 themes
- Agriculture and forestry;
- Business;
- Health and wellbeing;
- Buildings and infrastructure; and
- Natural environment.
For businesses there are risks from losses due to flooding, variability in the availability of water, loss of staff hours to building temperatures and supply chain disruption.
How does your company address climate change?
- Have you developed a company policy for mitigation and adaptation for climate change, identified the risks and reported publically on your position?
- Are your offices going to be under water by 2030?
- Will your supply chain be affected?
- Will there be an impact on the supply raw materials?
If you are unsure what the impacts men to you talk to us as were are here to help.