Future Ready Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability

Rethink climate, resilience, and sustainability for your organization

In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments. Through practical examples and proven insights, readers will learn to proactively engage with stakeholders, successfully plan, implement, and measure the impacts of their initiatives, and effectively communicate the results.

In the book, the authors draw on hundreds of completed projects across a full range of client organizations, markets, sectors, and scales to equip readers with unprecedented insights and the behind-the-scenes work that went into making the projects successful. The authors also include:

• Strategies for identifying, cataloguing, and reporting risks—from the operational to the physical and transactional—as well as explanations of how climate risk scenarios can reveal hidden opportunities and unexpected vulnerabilities
• A Future Ready mindset and the specific examples of organizational sustainability and climate adaptation commitments and the paths companies have taken to meet their goals
• Critical questions that leaders must ask of themselves and their organizations before they begin a climate, resilience, and/or sustainability initiative

A must-read guide for executives, board members, ESG professionals, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders, Future Ready belongs in the hands of anyone who finds themselves responsible for helping an organization achieve their environmental, social, and governance goals.

TOM LEWIS, international consultant and business leader, advises global organizations promoting sustainable and resilient infrastructure and technologies, environmental and climate stewardship, and disaster preparedness and recovery.

ALASTAIR (ALY) MACGREGOR’s industry-leading career in high- performance design has ranged from individual net zero buildings to strategic portfolio decarbonization, and spans four continents.

Introduction: Superstorm Sandy

Chapter 1: Rethink Everything

Part I: Touring a Changing World

Chapter 2: On the Street

Chapter 3: On the Move

Chapter 4: Below the Surface

Chapter 5: In the Big Apple

Part II: How to Design and Implement Your Organization’s Sustainability Journey

Chapter 6: Define, Measure, and Set Targets

Chapter 7: Tools and Technologies

Chapter 8: Reporting Risk and Assessing Vulnerability

Chapter 9: Building Support Inside and Out

Chapter 10: Nature Based Resilience From Coast to Coast

Conclusion: The Right Future, the Right Way

Notes

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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