Climate Changes Your Business

This review brings together and analyses the most important research into the effects of climate change on the corporate world, in order to identify the specific risks and economic impacts at sector level that businesses must address. Its purpose is to contribute to the debate, to stimulate further research and, most important, to help companies better understand and respond to the issues at stake.

Climate Changes Your Business is the most comprehensive analysis of its kind to date. Its findings, summarised below, are based on a review of 50 reports from a variety of reputable sources, mostly from the financial sector, addressing the business risks and economic impacts of climate change at sector level. The analysis of these 50 reports both aggregates their findings and quantifies the levels of climate-related risks facing a wide range of business sectors, providing what is effectively an “aggregate view” of the total risk to business of climate change.

In addition, with the help of observations from 11 external experts, the review assesses the degree to which that aggregate view is realistic. The end result is both an overview and a critical appraisal of climate-change risks as they are currently perceived.