Climate resilience and adaptation
Change is constant. Adaptation is key. But protecting people and places means anticipating environmental risk and hazards - and responding early.
Our climate adaptation teams deliver expertise in resilience, filtered through a collaborative approach. We work with our clients to co-create approaches built around specific circumstances, strengthening our ability to recover from natural disasters.
estimated economic losses resulting from natural disasters
(Source: 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction)
We address climate adaptation challenges holistically, bringing our engineers, planners and scientists together.
As a global team and in close partnership with our clients, we mitigate the effects of natural disasters and set a framework for effective climate resilience that identifies and addresses climate-related risks.
Creating more resilient environments
Our comprehensive climate resilience and adaptation services support you with:
Making metropolitan areas more resilient
As urban populations grow and the stress on existing infrastructure increases, we support smart, resilient development that factors in future environmental conditions.
As urban populations grow and the stress on existing infrastructure increases, we support smart, resilient development that factors in future environmental conditions.
Public and private sector collaboration
We’re experienced across the public and private sector, applying climate adaptation in operations, assets and supply chains. Paired with our insight into emergency response and planning, this capacity gives us a broader picture of how components intersect - and how stakeholders can collaborate.
We’re experienced across the public and private sector, applying climate adaptation in operations, assets and supply chains. Paired with our insight into emergency response and planning, this capacity gives us a broader picture of how components intersect - and how stakeholders can collaborate.
Climate resilience framework for business
We’ve devised a six-step process to help organizations develop and increase resilience against climate-related hazards - and review performance against sustainability goals.
We’ve devised a six-step process to help organizations develop and increase resilience against climate-related hazards - and review performance against sustainability goals.
Funding and financing climate adaptation
We provide practical recommendations, grounded in research, that help public and private leaders maximize resources to better invest in adaptation and resilience.
We provide practical recommendations, grounded in research, that help public and private leaders maximize resources to better invest in adaptation and resilience.
We work across the public and private sector on challenges including:
- City and regional climate adaptation strategy
- City and regional climate vulnerability & risk assessments
- Climate risk and adaptation planning
- Climate responsive design
- Nature based solutions to climate vulnerability
- Hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness
- Resilience strategy for non-urban environments
- Urban and waterfront resilience strategy
- Vulnerability and risk assessment
- Water reuse
- Urban heat reduction
- Urban and waterfront resilience strategy
- Alternative water supply
- Floodplain mapping
- Sustainable urban drainage systems
- Watershed management
- Climate applied economics
We partner with many organizations, including the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), The Rockefeller Foundation, CDP and C40 Cities, to help build the resilience of communities around the world.
Latest thinking on climate resilience and adaptation
Projecting 50 years into the future, we look at what successful town centers could look like.
The need to build resilience into our cities has never been greater. A holistic, multi-disciplinary approach is needed to protect our urban communities.
Climate adaptation and resilience in action
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