Climate Literacy: A Necessity for Effective Business Decisions

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Climate Change,Business Strategy,Risk Management

This article emphasizes the importance of climate literacy for businesses to make informed decisions in the face of increasing climate risks. It highlights how traditional business decision-making models, based on assumptions of climate stability, are becoming inadequate in a rapidly changing world.

An exercise to help leaders and employees make better business decisions by anticipating climate risks, assessing vulnerabilities, and implementing adaptive and mitigative strategies.

The factors that drive business decisions — from market and risk intelligence data, to local building codes, to employee safeguard requirements — were developed in the context of climate stability, based on predictable bands of variation in weather patterns and climate-related events. Today, scenario-planning based on factors derived from the assumption of a stable climate will lead to under-protection of assets and miscalculations of operating costs, market size, and even customer preferences.

where she is focused on climate curriculum and content development. She was previously a vice president in the infrastructure and energy finance group at Citi and a director at the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative., a climate literacy initiative that makes practical tools and educational resources available to everyone, everywhere. Alison regularly speaks to public audiences about climate risk and climate literacy and provides executive education to leaders across sectors.

 

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