The Climate Resilience Paradox (I): Awareness Without Action
Climate regulation demands urgent action. What’s missing to engage every team?
Securing buy-in is not about providing data for a report. It’s about conversations.
Despite the growing urgency of physical climate risks and the increasing impact of climate-related hazards on businesses, many sustainability leaders struggle to gain the management buy-in needed to build resilience and withstand external shocks.
Turn paradox into progress with a tailored workshop on Climate Risk and Regulatory Reporting. Here’s how it works.
The irony? It should be an easy case to make—especially with real-world examples of businesses already facing serious disruptions. Take Stadler, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of railway rolling stock, which recently reported that three severe weather disasters in just five months had a massive impact on its supply chain, forcing the company to revise its financial guidance.
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 reinforces this reality, ranking extreme weather events—driven by climate change—as the most significant 10-year risk for the second consecutive year.
Building Internal Capacity
For industrial companies, strengthening climate resilience is a delicate, cross-functional effort. Achieving buy-in means engaging stakeholders across the organisation. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development echoes this in a recent report, stating that “business leaders across all core functions should take an active role” and that “each role has a responsibility to coordinate across diverse internal and external stakeholders to build resilience and manage physical risk along the value chain.”
Sustainability leaders must bring physical climate risk and scenario analysis onto the broader corporate agenda—turning it from a niche concern into a company-wide priority.
A Practical Toolkit for Action
We know firsthand how critical it is to advance climate risk as a strategic issue. As Antonio Carrillo, Vice President Sustainability at Holcim, put it: “Working with CelsiusPro put physical climate risk and the scenario analysis on our corporate agenda.”
CelsiusPro’s Climate Risk and Regulatory Reporting Workshops equip industrial companies with actionable insights and practical tools to help sustainability leaders secure buy-in and drive capacity building.
Through past workshops with Valora Group, Elma Electronic, Gurit, and a leading Swiss medtech firm, we’ve worked with sustainability, finance, sales, risk management, and reporting teams to develop strategic approaches that make climate risk resilience a core business priority.
Want to learn more? Get in touch with our Climate Risk Insights and Solutions team.