Tools for each step of your climate risk journey
Extreme weather? Renewable energy? Reputation? Small and mid-size businesses will be affected by the climate crisis, same as the big ones. Yet their capacity for assessing and managing these risks may look different. In my pursuit to help these businesses #StandOutthroughSustainability, I want to offer my picks of FREE and EFFECTIVE tools and guides that employees or executives can use to start coloring in their climate risk-management strategy. These are free, easy to use, and don’t require you to sign up for anything (at least at the time of writing.) There’s no need to reinvent the wheel here with all these great resources at your disposal!
ASSESS: TCFD Climate Risk Guide
Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures
While TCFD is one of the several sustainability frameworks that the biggest companies must report through, it has a comprehensive table of specific climate risk and opportunity topics that is useful for businesses of all sizes
ASSESS: Climate Risk Report for Homes and Real Estate - Fire, Flood, Storm, Heat / ClimateCheck
Easy to use format, high level climate risk report good for individual facilities
ASSESS: CMRA - Climate Mapping For Resilience and Adaptation
More detailed climate information around specific measures (i.e. days with no precipitation, or days >100F)
ASSESS: WWF Risk Filter Suite
Water and Biodiversity Scenario Maps from World Wildlife Federation
Experts say global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030
Assess climate impacts at the ecosystem level- good for thinking about impacts to agriculture or raw materials
MITIGATE: Better Buildings Solution Center | Better Buildings Initiative
Through Better Buildings, DOE partners with leaders in the public and private sectors to make the nation’s homes, commercial buildings, and industrial plants more energy-efficient by accelerating investment and sharing successful best practices
Find inspiration and examples of a variety of industrial facility efficiency improvements, financing, and strategic partnerships
ADAPT: CAKE: Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge sharing & benchmarking for adaptation strategies
Resources for specific risks and mitigations (i.e. wildfires, agriculture)
Are there other tools that you use to manage your business's climate risk assessments or plans? I would love to hear more about them if so!