EC2 – Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organisation’s activities due to climate change

We take our responsibility towards sustainability very seriously. Responding to climate change, both with respect to our clients’ needs and our own operations are core aims of ours. Our Executive Board has considered both the risk and opportunity that climate change represents to our organisation with the following conclusions:

Business risks
We have assessed the risk to our operations to be low.  The majority of our operations are conducted in temperate climates where there are few recognisable risks to operations due to climate change. Emergency plans are in place throughout our organisation to deal with the impacts of short term disruptions caused by short term events. We have taken many initiatives to mitigate our own environmental footprint so that we can play our part in addressing climate change at the local level. There are no regulatory risks to our operations.

Business opportunity – sustainability by design

We recognise the business opportunity presented by climate change.  We now offer an increasing range of services aimed at addressing our clients’ needs in adapting to climate change or in mitigating its effects. These services are innovative in their offering and also through the embedded climate change and sustainability considerations inherent to our project planning and management.  We were able to demonstrate this effort at the COP15 summit and on our dedicated web site Securing Water.