Commitments to build resilience: we’d like your views
We Mean Business
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What could a corporate commitment on resilience look like?
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How can business go beyond building its own adaptive capacity to climate-related events, but also build resilience in their supply chains and in the broader community?
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What are the barriers and challenges to corporate engagement in resilience? How can policy makers remove them?
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What businesses have resilience strategies? Are these strategies built throughout all departments and operations? Why and how have they done this? What blocks do did they face, and opportunities do they see?
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Policy or field examples of where resilience has driven development, prosperity and security for communities and business
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What are the barriers to communities engaging with business in building resilience?
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What businesses or industries see resilience as a route to managing climate risk and future proofing? What do they need to implement these plans?
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In which industries, products or service sectors does resilience offer future opportunities, or risk-management. Where should the private sector invest?
How can you get involved?
Join our Twitter chat on November 7th 5pm GMT / 1pm ET
We’ll be using the hashtag #WeMeanIt to discuss resilience, and the role of business in it. The following participants are confirmed, and we’d love you to join us:
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@WMBTweets – The We Mean Business Coalition will be hosting
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@BSR – Our policy partner BSR will be sharing expertise, and ultimately drafting the new commitment
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Our Development and Climate Days partners @RCClimate, @Idrc_crdi, @GFDRR, @MRFCJ, @worldresources, @act_climate, @bebraced and @IFADnews will offer sustainable development and local insight
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@CDP – Our partner CDP will be sharing corporate voices and expertise
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@EdCameron – BSR’s Managing Director Ed is a specialist in climate change and human rights, and will share expertise on emissions reductions and enhancing business and societal resilience.
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@TopNigel – Our CEO Nigel will be inputting WMB’s thoughts and insight from his own discussions with business and policymakers
Want to take part? Join in on the day or let us know now and we’ll add your name here.
Submit your ideas anytime on Twitter or via email
Tweet us anytime @WMBTweets, email, or tag #WeMeanIt and tell us how you are building resilience into your business plans or policy approach. We’ll be resharing these, absorbing them into our new commitment planning, and showcasing them here and at COP22.
At COP22’s Development and Climate Days
If you’ll be at COP22, register for the Development and Climate Days, which focuses on fulfilling the ambitions of the Paris climate agreement to ensure resilient and equitable development.
On Saturday 12th at 2-3.30pm we’ll host crowdsourcing adaptation commitments for the private sector. BSR’s Ed will lead the session seeking input from the room and drawing on submissions we’ve received in advance.
At BSR’s Annual Conference: For those attending in New York on November 1-3, there will be opportunities to engage and submit ideas live.
We look forward to hearing from you, and please get in touch for more information.
Read our COP22 preview, and find our more about committing to action.