Climate Adaptation
How resilient is your organisation to current and future climate impacts?
Climate adaptation is about building resilience – creating a protective “buffer” between your organisation and the impacts of climate change.
It involves strengthening physical assets and refining everyday operational practices so that, whatever the weather brings – from extreme heatwaves to flash flooding – your business can continue to operate without disruption.
By embedding climate resilience into infrastructure and operations, organisations can minimise the impact of climate‑related events such as floods and heat stress, ensuring business continuity and keeping doors open. Adapting workplaces to rising temperatures also helps protect employee health and well-being, supporting productivity and long‑term business growth.
Inspired’s approach
Inspired applies the globally recognised ISO 14090 and ISO 14091 standards to ensure climate‑related physical risks are assessed thoroughly and considered at executive level.
Our approach emphasises how climate risks evolve under different future scenarios and ensures risk management is embedded across the organisation, rather than treated as a standalone exercise. Using ISO 14091, we move away from subjective assessments towards quantified, evidence‑based analysis. This enables you to:
- Identify which climate‑related physical risks are most significant
- Understand how your organisation is exposed to these risks
- Assess your level of resilience to each identified risk
We also assess risks in a broader operational context. For example, we consider how flooding may disrupt transport infrastructure and the resulting impacts on customers, employees, and supply chains.
Once risks and impacts are clearly understood, ISO 14090 provides the framework to plan and implement adaptation measures, helping ensure business operations remain resilient and disruption‑free.
Our climate adaptation service brings together a series of integrated workstreams, each delivering clear outputs that:
- Strengthen internal capability
- Improve understanding of climate‑related risks and opportunities
- Support efficient and streamlined reporting
Key deliverables
Inspired’s climate adaptation projects typically run for up to nine months from kick‑off to final delivery.
Early project phases focus on data collection, capability building, and climate and nature‑related risk analysis. Later stages are dedicated to preparing internal reports and drafting disclosures aligned with your annual reporting cycle.
Climate Scenario Analysis
Climate-related Risk Register
Fully branded climate adaptation report
“Working with Inspired on our Climate Adaptation Plan has been a genuinely positive experience. Their expertise, professionalism, and collaborative approach made the process not only smooth but also enjoyable. Over the past year, they provided us with invaluable support, helping us navigate complex sustainability challenges and shaping a plan that is both ambitious and achievable.”
Jo Smith, Estates and Sustainability Lead,
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
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Daniel Williams
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“Whether you are a private or public sector organisation, Inspired can support you to strengthen climate resilience and prepare for both current and future climate risks.”
Related ESG services
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) – Scope 1 and 2 emissions
Scope 1 and 2 emissions are recommended to be included under the TCFD’s ‘Metrics and Targets’ section. As part of Inspired’s Climate-Related Financial Disclosure offering, a Scope 1 and 2 emissions inventory is calculated.
Scope 3 emissions inventory
Scope 3 emissions are also recommended to be included under the TCFD’s ‘Metrics and Targets’ section to help stakeholders understand a company’s value chain emissions and what steps are they taking to reduce their impact. As part of Inspired’s Climate-Related Financial Disclosure offering, a Scope 3 emissions inventory is also calculated.
Greenhouse gas emissions verification – ISO 14064
The ISO 14064 standard is a process to verify a company’s greenhouse gas emissions footprint and covers operational, as well as value chain, emissions. Inspired’s ESG Quality Assurance team can verify the Scope 3 inventory to provide additional assurance of the calculations and output.
Net-Zero Strategy
Net-zero should be achieved by reducing Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions as far as possible; a Net-Zero Strategy plans for how these reductions will be achieved. Understanding your baseline GHG emissions is the starting point for developing a net-zero strategy as it allows hotspots to be identified and progress tracked.
Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) / Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) / Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) allow businesses to demonstrate the environmental impact of the products they sell. This information is being increasingly requested by ESG-conscious customers. The data used to calculate corporate Scope 3 emissions form the basis of understanding a company’s product-related emissions.
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At Inspired, we’ve been putting a lot of effort into helping businesses to understand ESG and its associated benefits. But, our support doesn’t end there.
Greenhouse gas emissions verification – ISO 14064
Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) / Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
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