Visioning climate and biodiversity-related value chain risks to businesses.

Alice Brawley Chesworth

This workshop is part of a larger project that is examining climate, biodiversity and water across the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. Previous research has shown that businesses currently aren’t adequately considering climate change and biodiversity loss in their assessment of value chain risks. During the workshop, we will be asking businesses to think about the futures of their businesses, how their value chains could change, and what type of future they would like to create. The research goals will be two-fold: first, we want to get business leaders thinking about the connections between their business models and climate and biodiversity; second, we as researchers want to gain an overview of climate and biodiversity risks across a variety of sectors and get a sense of industry partners who we might want to work with during future phases of the larger project.