Understand your risk

Understanding your progress

Every business faces climate risks differently. The first step is to understand where you stand today. We conduct a gap analysis of your current climate risk capabilities, comparing them to peers and recognised standards. This establishes a clear baseline and highlights where effort is best directed.

Deliverables include:

• Full climate risk gap analysis and maturity assessment

• Peer benchmarking scorecards

• Targeted improvement roadmap

This foundation ensures that subsequent analysis is anchored in business reality – and sets a focused direction for building resilience.

Your risks and opportunities

Climate risk is not only about threats to your business – it is also about the opportunities of a changing world. Through tailored workshops with your leadership and key teams, we uncover the full spectrum of climate-related risks you need to be thinking about. We also delve into the value-creating opportunities relevant to your business model.

What you get:

• Stakeholder-led risk and opportunity identification sessions

• Risk and opportunity scoring, tailored to your business

• Climate risk register, aligned to your risk management processes

The result is a risk register that reflects both operational realities and strategic ambition – integrated directly into your enterprise risk management framework.

Analysing risks from climate change

We can't predict the future. However, we can stress-test your business against different possible versions of the future (scenarios) by carrying out scenario analysis.

Extreme weather (physical climate risk) will be impacting your business today, whether directly, or in your supply chain, or investments. The worsening frequency and severity of extreme weather is driven by large, long-term climate changes. We use science-based, globally recognised climate models to understand the potential impacts of the changing climate on your business.

Our analysis translates climate model data on a range of climate hazards into financial terms tailored to your business, allowing for meaningful scenario-based planning and mitigation for your operations, assets and supply chains.

Methodology includes:

• Multi-pathway scenario modelling (1.5°C, 2°C, 4°C)

• Financial impact analysis across your P&L, balance sheet and cash flow

• Interactive climate risk and financial impact dashboard

Analysing risks from policy changes

To try and minimise the impacts of extreme weather and climate change on our planet, our societies and the economy, governments are introducing policies to accelerate the global transition to a net zero world.

These policies are part of another source of financial risks to your business, known as transition risks. Transition risks include:

• Policy changes (such as carbon taxes)

• Technology shifts (substitution of current technology with lower-emission alternatives)

• Market shifts (changing customer behaviour)

• Reputational risks (negative feedback from increasingly engaged stakeholders)

As with extreme weather, we can model the potential impacts as different possible futures unfold. We use scenarios from world-leading authorities on energy systems and climate-related financial risk to understand the possible financial impacts to your business.

Telling your risk story

Telling the story of your climate risk analysis, including your risks and opportunities, potential financial impacts, and your planned mitigation and adaptation actions, is key.

Whether it's to show investors you understand and are prepared for the risks. Or you want to demonstrate to your customers you've considered the future and are ready to continue serving them. Or your company is required to disclose this information by your local policy landscape. You need to be able to communicate this work in a way that builds confidence and trust, makes technical analysis actionable, and has impact.

We deliver standards-aligned disclosures that meet investor, regulatory and stakeholder expectations, while strengthening your credibility and strategic narrative.

Our support includes alignment with TCFD, CSRD and ISSB requirements (among many others). We can assess how you currently disclose and where there's room for improvement, as well as producing board-ready materials.

So, what's next?

Climate risks are unavoidable – but with the right analysis, they become manageable. Huntley Sustainability helps you prepare with confidence, combining analysis with your business' strategic direction.