Corporate strategy: towards resilient activity

Climate change has started. Whatever our efforts to reduce GHG emissions, in 2035 it will already be 1.5°C warmer than in the preindustrial era. This warming is disturbing our climates, generating numerous and varied physical and financial impacts.

All the value chains of a company can be affected: assets, supplies, logistics, market, etc. These impacts will be magnified and place companies under increasing pressure (losses, lack of finance, destabilisation, or even bankruptcy). It is therefore a strategic option to anticipate these changes and prepare for them.

We assist you to strengthen your company’s resilience to climate change and adapt to future climatic conditions.

• For an industrial company or infrastructure manager, this entails securing one’s processes against the effects of climate change.
• For an investor or asset portfolio manager, this entails ensuring the resilience of your investments in the face of climate change.

Carbone 4 assists companies to anticipate the risks linked to the impacts of climate change so they can increase their resilience, and to understand the stakes involved and set up an adapted business strategy.

Carbone 4’s knowhow allows it to assist every actor, guide their reflection and help them to answer questions such as:

• What are the main risks that threaten my assets and capital?
• Which of my sites, assets and processes are at greatest risk? And against which climatic events?
• Are my facilities adapted to future climatic conditions? Should I review my maintenance policies? Are my supply strategies at risk?
• Will my business plan be affected by climatic impact scenarios?
• What actions should be implemented to anticipate these risks internally? With the stakeholders?
• What are the trajectories of adaptation possible for each climate risk identified?

Formulating a resilience strategy relies on carrying out a risk diagnostic. Carbone 4 assists you to evaluate risks according to an approach in line with IPCC recommendations and standard ISO 14090. The climatic vulnerability of critical processes is assessed according to a constant climate and then project into the future using the IPCC’s climate scenarios. This method sheds light on critical stakes in the company and the capacities of adaptation to be called into action. It supplies a robust basis for formulating a resilience strategy in the face of climate change.

Our experts are adept in climate risk analysis methods and climate datasets, and they have solid knowhow regarding sectoral vulnerability, sectoral impacts and adaptation actions.