Highlights

Rising Climate Threats to Supply Chains

Global supply chains are increasingly vulnerable to climate disruptions, with floods, droughts, and extreme weather events compounding geopolitical and economic risks. Businesses must integrate climate resilience into supply chain strategies to safeguard continuity, competitiveness, and long-term financial stability.

Gaps in Existing Resilience Frameworks

Current supply chain resilience frameworks emphasize visibility, flexibility, contingency, and collaboration but often overlook climate-specific risks. Companies need decision-useful metrics and tools that connect climate science with operational supply chain planning to better anticipate and withstand disruptions.

Barriers to Integration and Transparency

Barriers to integration include limited supplier transparency, poor data quality, and mismatched planning horizons—short-term logistics versus long-term climate risks. Overcoming these challenges requires new partnerships, innovative data use, and cross-disciplinary approaches that align climate and supply chain practices.

Climate as a Threat Multiplier

Climate change acts as a “threat multiplier,” magnifying existing vulnerabilities in supply chains. Incorporating adaptation and resilience into corporate strategies is vital, especially as overshoot beyond 1.5 degrees C makes disruptions more frequent, severe, and costly for global businesses and communities.

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The drive for decarbonization has demonstrated the private sector’s power to coalesce around best practices, attract investment, and shape policy. There is an urgent need for similar dynamism to accelerate climate resilience. The lack of a unifying language and framework for corporate climate action is a missed opportunity—without a collective approach, we leave the true potential of the private sector untapped, the economy’s resilience vulnerable, and vital resources underutilized.

To address this time-critical gap between opportunity and risk, Resilience Rising and its consortium partner Resilience First, in partnership with C2ES, jointly engaged with senior leaders from over 45 organizations in a series of virtual and in-person meetings over the course of 2023. These sessions brought together sustainability and climate change experts from across all major economic sectors, representing a combined annual revenue of more than $2.1 trillion USD, to dissect evolving climate challenges and the essential role of businesses in fostering societal resilience to climate and compounding impacts. The collaborative insights gathered from these discussions, alongside the latest research and expert analysis, informed the development of this position paper and the working “Principles for Corporate Leadership on Climate Resilience.”

In this report, we detail the key findings from our consultations–the case for private sector action, the drivers of and barriers to accelerating investment, and a first look at the pioneering principles to guide corporate leadership for on resilience. Together with this accompanying position paper, the working Principles set the foundation for defining a new narrative for the private sector—one that underscores the necessity of robust resilience measures and establishes a community of practice committed to fostering a resilient, inclusive, and thriving global economy.

Learn more about the Corporate Climate Resilience Pathways Initiative.

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A changing climate affects how businesses operate—physical and transition risks drive challenges and the low-carbon transition presents opportunities as companies shift to a clean energy future. Improved disclosure of climate-related risks will protect investors by ensuring they have consistent, comparable, and decision-useful information on which companies are best prepared to adapt to the physical impacts of climate change and which are best insulated against any regulatory and market-based transition risks.

While the final rule is an important step forward, it is narrower in scope than the proposed rule and where most of the disclosures are now required if deemed material by companies. Given the subjectivity of assessing materiality, additional guidance will likely be needed to ensure greater clarity and consistency in reporting across sectors to ensure the maximum benefit to investors as they allocate capital and assess risk.

To help stakeholders identify and track the SEC’s approach to key topics included in the rule, C2ES has prepared the following rapid analysis. This analysis includes a short summary of the substance of the original proposal, C2ES’s feedback on the original proposal, and if/how the final rule changed.

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• current practices companies are using to conduct climate-related financial analysis
• honest insights related to the challenges companies are facing, and how they are working to overcome the challenges
• views on future developments regarding climate risk and opportunity analysis, and keys to success
• case studies from specific Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC) members.

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Surveying a decade’s worth of state and local green bank successes and challenges can illuminate some design elements that states, localities, and the federal government should consider as green banks mature and as new green banks are established to accelerate clean energy deployment. Key considerations include organizational structure, initial capitalization and ongoing funding, operational scope, types of financing products and services, and impact metrics.

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