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Helping organisations and communities prepare for the impacts of climate change
Helping organisations and communities prepare for the impacts of climate change
Climate change impacts are already projected to cost the global economy $54tr by 2040 – understanding which threats your business, community or organisation faces is now a pressing priority for everyone. Beyond climate change, organisations need to be aware of risks from a range of related issues including security threats, infrastructure failure, and social unrest.
Every leader knows the danger of assuming tomorrow will resemble today. Building resilience to global climate change is now a boardroom priority worldwide. ” 
Kaitlin Shilling Global Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation Leader
Arup’s climate resilience and adaptation team works with partners and clients across policy making, city planning, design, critical infrastructure and asset management, to ensure organisations and communities understand vulnerabilities and can become resilient to relevant threats. Our consultants use the International Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6 – 2021) to provide the most up-to-date and locally specific insights.
We are committed to greater equity. Our work is based on a fundamentally humane approach to design and development, where the needs of the whole community are always central to any solution. We work with clients in international bodies, national government agencies, statutory services as well as critical infrastructure providers, local authorities and commercial property owners.
For developers, we offer climate adaptive design. We help financial institutions and investors to estimate their financial exposure and test investment decisions. For governments, our science and evidence-based assessments can help leaders to explore the future of neighbourhoods, regions and cities affected by climate change. For corporations we offer detailed understanding of their physical and transitional risk related to climate and other hazards.
Whatever your precise need, we can call on Arup’s wide variety of technical experts to craft an effective solution.
Our approach can be applied at any stage or context, depending on the nature of your resilience risk. There are three broad elements, which clients can access at any stage, and we see as an iterative, continuous process:
Assess
We provide a detailed evaluation of existing risks and threats. This will include climate risk assessment and an identification of hazard vulnerabilities. We use a complex multi-hazard assessment approach, which reveals local climate and nature-based risks.
Advise
We work with you to define a resilience strategy that will help you identify key areas of focus. We have a well-defined process to move from a high level assessment down to the local level – even down to specific assets. This covers hazard modelling, resilient action plans, design solutions, and financial risk assessments. This includes preparing for potential financial losses due to business interruption, damage, repair or component replacement, or other forms of related lost revenue.
Act
We design and implement the interventions required to achieve adaptation and resilience to climate change. Unlike other consultancies, Arup can integrate an end-to-end solution from advisory insights to practical mitigations and engineering/design solutions, drawing on the breadth of our global engineering and design teams.
We provide a detailed evaluation of existing risks and threats. This will include climate risk assessment and an identification of hazard vulnerabilities. We use a complex multi-hazard assessment approach, which reveals local climate and nature-based risks.
We work with you to define a resilience strategy that will help you identify key areas of focus. We have a well-defined process to move from a high level assessment down to the local level – even down to specific assets. This covers hazard modelling, resilient action plans, design solutions, and financial risk assessments. This includes preparing for potential financial losses due to business interruption, damage, repair or component replacement, or other forms of related lost revenue.
We design and implement the interventions required to achieve adaptation and resilience to climate change. Unlike other consultancies, Arup can integrate an end-to-end solution from advisory insights to practical mitigations and engineering/design solutions, drawing on the breadth of our global engineering and design teams.
We provide a detailed evaluation of existing risks and threats. This will include climate risk assessment and an identification of hazard vulnerabilities. We use a complex multi-hazard assessment approach, which reveals local climate and nature-based risks.
We work with you to define a resilience strategy that will help you identify key areas of focus. We have a well-defined process to move from a high level assessment down to the local level – even down to specific assets. This covers hazard modelling, resilient action plans, design solutions, and financial risk assessments. This includes preparing for potential financial losses due to business interruption, damage, repair or component replacement, or other forms of related lost revenue.
We design and implement the interventions required to achieve adaptation and resilience to climate change. Unlike other consultancies, Arup can integrate an end-to-end solution from advisory insights to practical mitigations and engineering/design solutions, drawing on the breadth of our global engineering and design teams.
Resilience is a priority for everyone – here are just some of the ways Arup is helping clients.
We help developer clients, tech firms, universities and others, to build new levels of future resilience into projects at the earliest design stages, drawing on detailed climate modelling and analysis of local and regional risks. For existing building owners, our ‘assess, advise, adapt’ process reveals growing risks and a structured, pragmatic approach to adaptation. In either context, our recommendations will always meet net zero goals, supported by our property portfolio risk management platform – Iris.
Vital national infrastructure like sanitation systems, transport networks and power grids, all face growing climate risks. We are helping clients to explore likely scenarios and prepare effective mitigations in contexts like airports, rail networks and regional development planning.
Peru faces different challenges to Liverpool. Hong Kong’s risks aren’t the same as New York’s. Our City Resilience Index is helping cities worldwide to understand the combination of local threats they face and prepare for a safer future.
With emptying reservoirs and soaring demand, recent extreme temperatures have made the longstanding pressures on urban water clearer than ever. We are helping clients in city and regional government, as well as relevant local utility players, to improve the resilience of their water supply, for domestic and industrial users alike.
Property owners
We help developer clients, tech firms, universities and others, to build new levels of future resilience into projects at the earliest design stages, drawing on detailed climate modelling and analysis of local and regional risks. For existing building owners, our ‘assess, advise, adapt’ process reveals growing risks and a structured, pragmatic approach to adaptation. In either context, our recommendations will always meet net zero goals, supported by our property portfolio risk management platform – Iris.
Infrastructure operators
Vital national infrastructure like sanitation systems, transport networks and power grids, all face growing climate risks. We are helping clients to explore likely scenarios and prepare effective mitigations in contexts like airports, rail networks and regional development planning.
City governments
Peru faces different challenges to Liverpool. Hong Kong’s risks aren’t the same as New York’s. Our City Resilience Index is helping cities worldwide to understand the combination of local threats they face and prepare for a safer future.
Water utilities
With emptying reservoirs and soaring demand, recent extreme temperatures have made the longstanding pressures on urban water clearer than ever. We are helping clients in city and regional government, as well as relevant local utility players, to improve the resilience of their water supply, for domestic and industrial users alike.
In 2020, Arup committed to ensuring net zero across our operations by 2030. Our aim is to reduce emissions by 30%, which is equivalent to 40,800 tCO2e within 5 years of that commitment.
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