Risks are easiest to spot once things go wrong.
We’ve in the middle of a heatwave.
Schools are shutting. Hospitals are cancelling procedures.
People can’t attend an event set up to talk about climate because trains can’t run in this heat.
For the last ten years we’ve focused on what impact we have on the climate – our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
There’s been less focus on what the changing climate has on our businesses and ways of living, but that’s been raised over the last few years as climate-related disruptions have increased.
But now we’re being forced to look at and re-evaluate how we run our businesses.
What will you do if the weather stops your business operating?
The first sign that we’re losing a safety net is when we can’t get insurance – not in certain areas exposed to flood risk and buildings exposed to fire risk.
Our job now is to build safety nets as we fall, before the ground rises up to meet us.
It’s when risk gets real that we finally start doing something about it.
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