Ask most organisations for their carbon footprint and they can give you a figure. Ask how exposed they are to overheating, flooding, energy disruption or a supply chain shock, and the answer is far less certain.
That gap is becoming a strategic problem. Over the past decade, businesses have become genuinely good at measuring their impact on the climate, driven by regulation, investor pressure and the maturing discipline of sustainability reporting. What far fewer can quantify is what the climate’s impact is on them.
As heatwaves, flooding and extreme weather become more frequent and more costly, that second question is becoming as important as the first. And it points to a metric most boards don’t yet track, climate resilience.
Why resilience resists a single number
Carbon lends itself to measurement because it can be distilled into one comparable figure. Resilience can’t. It is spread across an organisation’s...
