Rethink climate, resilience, and sustainability for your organization
In Future Ready: Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments. Through practical examples and proven insights, readers will learn to proactively engage with stakeholders, successfully plan, implement, and measure the impacts of their initiatives, and effectively communicate the results.
In the book, the authors draw on hundreds of completed projects across a full range of client organizations, markets, sectors, and scales to equip readers with unprecedented insights and the behind-the-scenes work that went into making the projects successful. The authors also include:
- Strategies for identifying, cataloguing, and reporting risks-from the operational to the physical and transactional-as well as explanations of how climate risk scenarios can reveal hidden opportunities and unexpected vulnerabilities
- A Future Ready mindset and the specific examples of organizational sustainability and climate adaptation commitments and the paths companies have taken to meet their goals
- Critical questions that leaders must ask of themselves and their organizations before they begin a climate, resilience, and/or sustainability initiative
A must-read guide for executives, board members, ESG professionals, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders, Future Ready belongs in the hands of anyone who finds themselves responsible for helping an organization achieve their environmental, social, and governance goals.
PRAISE FOR FUTURE READY
"Collaboration is key to the global transformation we need to address the climate crisis. Business and infrastructure leaders must be at the center of this cause, working together across sectors. Future Ready provides powerful tools and real-world examples for companies as they work to achieve environmental, social, and governance goals and make a lasting impact in their networks."
-Seth Schultz, CEO, Resilience Rising
Let's commit to making real changes and shifting the needle toward sustainability
Why has it taken people so long to begin addressing climate change? How can we, as business leaders, avoid false steps, counterproductive incentives, and ineffective projects? Future Ready answers all these questions and many more.
Whether you're just starting out on the sustainability journey, looking to build institutional support, or working to accelerate climate action, Future Ready will serve as an essential guide to setting strategy, driving implementation, engaging stakeholders, measuring impact, and communicating the results.
Contributors
Foreword by Professor Spiro N. Pollalis, Harvard Design School and Anthony Kane, Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure
Epilogue by Stacy Swann, CEO and Founding Partner of Climate Finance Advisors, a Member of WSP
