Climate resilience approaches (and budget considerations) for Chief Sustainability Officers
"If you're not investing in adaptation and resilience, you'll completely derail your mitigation efforts."
It’s no coincidence that 2023 – the hottest year on record – was the year adaptation and resilience climbed up further than ever on the global climate agenda. But what does climate resilience mean at company level, and how can Chief Sustainability Officers integrate it into their work?
It is now becoming clear that our efforts to curb climate change have been too slow so far: greenhouse gas emissions reached a record 40 billion tonnes last year, and although experts are hopeful that mitigation work will accelerate exponentially in the coming years, the effects of global temperature increases are here and clear.
