Impacts: Financial and Regulatory
Top takeaways: As the Earth’s climate changes, the increasing occurrence and severity of extreme weather events and abnormal climatic conditions puts stress on local and global economies resulting in disruptions…
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Impacts: Supply Chain
Top takeaways: Climate change-related events such as extreme weather, droughts, forest fires, and floods are disrupting local and global supply chains on an increasingly frequent basis. This impacts the movement…
Impacts: Agriculture and Food Security
Top takeaways: Global studies across the world show a clear impact on food security as rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns change where crops can be grown[1]. In many lower-latitude…
Impacts: Building and Infrastructure
Top takeaways: What are the financial costs of flooding? Flooding is already the most frequent and costly natural disaster in Canada. November 2021’s floods in B.C. caused an estimated $675…
Impacts: Human Health
Top takeaways: What does extreme heat do to people? This is of particular concern for industries with high outdoor heat exposure risks, such as agriculture and construction. Such impacts may…
Corporate Flood and Heat Risk Management Resource Hub
Corporate Flood and Heat Risk Management Resource Hub Human-induced climate change is putting people, ecosystems, and the economy at risk. The International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report…
Primer: ESG Reporting Structures
Top takeaways: With growing interest from investors, customers, and other stakeholders in understanding corporate sustainability strategies and impacts, interest in ESG reporting is also growing. ESG reporting is the voluntary…
Primer: An Overview of Global Climate Change
Top takeaways: The Global Surface Temperature is Rising The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. The IPCC has…
Primer: Growing Season and Agriculture
Top takeaways: Changes in temperature and precipitation patterns will have significant implications for regional agricultural operations that may present a mix of positive and negative impacts depending on location and…
Primer: Changes in Temperature in the Toronto Region over the 21st Century
Top takeaways: This Primer uses the moderate (RCP4.5) and high (RCP8.5) emissions scenarios as a basis for discussion. Average annual temperatures are expected to continue increasing across the Toronto region…
Primer: How Do Scientists Project Climate Futures?
Top takeaways: Understanding climate change impacts at the local level requires analyzing data at the right spatial resolution. Typically, climate models consider global climate dynamics and make projections on relatively…
Primer: Climate Change is a Business Risk
Top takeaways: Climate change is not just an environmental issue, it is also an economic issue. It poses critical challenges to businesses in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) that will…