Climate & Risk Assessment is essential for businesses to identify and address vulnerabilities related to climate change and water scarcity. By proactively managing these risks, companies can safeguard their operations and seize new opportunities in a shifting environmental landscape. Effective climate and water risk management optimises resource use, reduces costs, and strengthens your business’s reputation as a sustainability leader.

At Cress Consulting, we utilise advanced tools and tailored strategies to ensure your business is resilient and prepared for future challenges.

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Risk Assessment

Cress helps you reduce and manage exposure by assessing risks, identifying solutions, and strategically planning for changing climate conditions.

Risk and opportunity identification

Cress specialises in examining business vulnerabilities to the impacts of climate and water shortage risk. We can also identify opportunities to increase resilience, reduce emissions, and cut costs. Cress uses technology to reduce water use, guide your transition to renewable energy, and generate bioenergy from waste. We leverage our expertise to explore sustainable possibilities for each client, ensuring a more sustainable future.

Climate risk assessment and management

Cress can develop risk management plans with costs, timeframes, accountabilities, and reporting frameworks to manage climate risks with the potential to impact your operations. This assessment can help future-proof your organisation against the effects of climate change, reducing total cost as well as identifying opportunities for improvement or a competitive edge.

Water risk assessment and management

For many operators using or reliant upon water resources, the biggest impact of climate change is on water supply. Reduced water allocation often means reduced production or output. Understanding the impact of a changing climate on water resources is crucial for improving enterprise viability. We help assess your water risks and identify alternative sources. Cress also offers options to improve water efficiency and increase the recycling or reuse of process water.

We are water risk specialists who understand that managing water resources secures critical supply for continuous operations. If you’re planning an expansion or developing a new site, Cress can conduct a water risk assessment to ensure your investment has adequate water support.

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Mitigation and Adaptation

Cress can help you to identify the impacts of climate change on your business and to identify mitigation and adaptation measures to ensure your activities can continue with minimal disruption.

Build resilience in operations, infrastructure, supply chains, investments

Understanding which parts of your operations are most at risk from increased temperature, bushfires, floods, storm damage, or climate-related water restrictions is essential. This understanding helps you plan effectively by strengthening the resilience of assets, diversifying supply chains to spread risk, or future-proofing sites with technology and other adaptation measures. These strategies ensure your business is better prepared for climate impacts while enhancing long-term sustainability.

Adaptation plans

Adapting to the challenges of a changing climate is important to minimise the impacts on your business and its operations, people, and supply chains. Cress can help you to find ways to do things differently, or indeed, do different things to maintain profitability and even uncover prospects for growth.

We can help you identify and implement asset protection measures, improvements to essential infrastructure, storm or flood protection actions, diversification of supply chains to spread the risk of disruption to the supply of essential materials, providing additional outdoor shade and shelter for people and animals, increasing climate control capacity for indoor environments or securing water and energy supply.

Developing an adaptation plan as early as possible is good practice and early action is generally more cost effective.

Mitigation management plans

Reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 is essential to limit warming to 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels thereby avoiding the worst effects of climate change. Mitigating your carbon emissions will contribute to that goal and can also be a cost-reduction strategy. Cress helps you design a management plan that includes improving energy efficiency and transitioning to renewable energy. We also focus on reducing or eliminating food and organic waste and modifying production processes to cut emissions.

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Cress Consulting is committed to addressing climate and water risks, ensuring your business remains resilient against environmental challenges. Through our expert Climate & Risk Assessment services, we offer insights and strategies to navigate these risks effectively. Let us partner with you to secure a sustainable and prosperous future for your organisation.

Contact us today to learn how we can help you build resilience and sustainability into your business operations.