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Climate Change Adaptation in the Workplace: Every Job Has a Role to Play!
June 2026
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Carbone 4's Practical Guide to Fully Integrating Climate Resilience into Your Organization
Climate change manifests itself, first and foremost, through events physical : heat waves, floods… which are becoming increasingly intense and frequent. These hazards can have direct or indirect physical consequences for a business. That is why the term “physical risks” is used.
For example: A fire breaks out in a forest that is harvested for timber. The lack of resources for the processing plant that uses this timber is a physical impact.
At recent “World Economic Forum” meetings, the failure of policies to adapt to the physical impacts of climate change was identified as a major risk to the global economy [1].
The reason is simple: climate change is altering one of the risk drivers—climate—that businesses have already identified and are monitoring. In other words, Climate change acts as a structural constraint additional [2].
The relationship between physical risks and other business risks is complex.
Different occupations may be affected by the same physical risk, well beyond operational activities, and the ripple effects are numerous.
Taking the time to assess physical risks and identify the link between physical risks and other business risks means equipping your organization to integrate adaptation at every level in order to build comprehensive resilience, because Every profession has a role to play.
Having developed our OCARA methodology in collaboration with our clients, with a close focus on their real-world operations, we at Carbone 4 have been able to identify the impact of physical risks on various types of business functions.
Building on this experience, we are able to share new resources with you to guide companies in launching and implementing their adaptation strategies. This publication provides an overview of the challenges related to physical risks, as well as two new tools to help the various business units within the company address adaptation to physical risks:
1. Our matrix mapping physical risk analysis to other business risks
2. Our 12 job descriptions
