Climate Response Wheel

Climate change is a complex topic. It can be daunting to understand how it impacts on your business and how your business is impacting on the climate. The Climate Response Wheel has been developed to help you see the whole elephant and plan your climate journey. 

The Climate Response Wheel has emerged from discussions with clients and our own observations. While there may be good progress on climate action it tends to be in pockets and started without stepping back to see the bigger picture. Foreseeable’s approach is to use the lens of the value chain in order to identify the key area where business intersects with climate change. The value chain is considered against the three streams of a climate change response - decarbonisation, adaptation and transition. With the addition of enablers we believe the Climate Response Wheel provides provides the ideal foundation for developing a climate response plan.

The climate wheel is a powerful visual tool to demonstrate progress

The Climate Response Wheel can be used to provide a status update on the key areas of your climate response. This provides a clear snapshot for boards and management teams to see where additional effort may be required.

Foreseeable has used the Climate Response Wheel with clients as a communications tool to help explain the scope of climate change work, and as a planning tool to identify and scope out the programme of work required across the organisation in order to be climate ready.

For each segment and enabler we have developed a robust view of what must be in place in order to be climate ready, some probing questions and key tools and resources to help.

Please get in touch to start using the Climate Response Wheel for your organisation.

Download a free copy of the Climate Response Wheel ebook

In this easy to digest ebook we provide some more context behind the Climate Response Wheel. This includes an explanation of the relationship between climate change and business, and more information on the three workstreams of the climate response.

Climate Response Wheel ebook PDF

How can we help

  • Use the Climate Response Wheel to undertake a critical assessment of where your current understanding and planning for climate action is currently at.

  • Building on the initial assessment we will engage with your team to identify the workstreams and actions required to address the gaps on the Climate Response Wheel.

  • Through a comprehensive process we will develop a climate response plan together that will enhance your reputation (through action on emissions), improve resilience (by addressing climate impacts) and ensuring your remain relevant in a low carbon world (through an understanding and response to transition risks and opportunities)