Future Ready
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Future Ready

Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability

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eBook - ePub

Future Ready

Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781119894568
eBook ISBN
9781119894629
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Praise for Future Ready
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction: Superstorm Sandy
  9. 1 Rethink Everything
  10. PART I: Touring a Dynamic World
  11. PART II: How to Design and Implement Your Organization's Sustainability Journey
  12. Conclusion: The Right Future, the Right Way
  13. Epilogue: When You Rethink Everything, Finance Will Flow
  14. Afterword: Ready, Steady, Breath…Go!
  15. Afterword: Why There's No I in Team—or CRS
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. About the Authors
  18. Glossary
  19. Index
  20. End User License Agreement