Climate Change Adaptation

Our Management Consulting team help companies maintain business continuity through adaptive capacity development.

Andrew McArthur is our expert in Climate Change Resilience

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Maintaining a resilient future

Our climate is changing and we must adapt. More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels and warming oceans will affect the services we rely upon and impact the way we all live. Individuals, communities, organisations and governments must take action now to mitigate the impact of climate change and adapt to our changing environment so that we become more resilient to its impact. 

WRc's Management Consulting team works with organisations to embed systems and risk-based approaches to climate change adaptation; an approach that enables our clients to understand potential vulnerabilities, identify potential adaptation options and develop an effective framework (strategy and plans) for delivery of adaptation actions to secure a resilient future.

Evidence-based risk & value decision making

Our approach draws upon our cross-sector asset management and business transformation experience and is founded on the following principles for the most cost-effective adaptation approaches:

  • Risk / opportunity and system based
  • Integrated and collaborative scientific, engineering and management expertise
  • Value and evidence (data) driven investment decision making
Our proven four-step approach offers organisations:
  • a robust methodology for identifying and assessing the risks, impacts and vulnerability of the organisation to climate change;
  • support with the identification, prioritisation and planning of actions for implementation of preferred adaptation options;
  • business change and transformation support to enable the implementation of climate change adaptation action plans; and
  • monitoring, measurement, analysis and review of adaptation performance to ensure the organisation remains responsive and resilient to climate change.

Embedding adaptive capacity

Improving people, process, systems and data to enhance adaptive capacity now and in the future.

Managing broad uncertainties

Using scientific, engineering and business transformation expertise to reduce and manage the uncertainties associated with climate change impacts.

Investment for a resilient future

Embedding data and evidence driven decision making mechanisms that support effective whole-life investments.

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Andrew McArthur

Director of Management Consulting

Andrew has extensive experience with business change and transformation, with a technical focus in asset management. He has successfully supported numerous clients across the water, transport and energy sectors to improve their asset management maturity, allowing them to balance cost, risk and performance parameters and the delivery of risk and evidence-based investment plans. This includes the identification and delivery of performance improvements to strategy, plans, process and procedure – across the asset lifecycle - so that assets are managed in alignment with organisational objectives.