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Published: 2026
Author: Becky Twohey
Abstract
GSI sees climate consulting evolving beyond disclosure and compliance toward multidisciplinary business decision support. GSI’s Sustainability and Climate practice combines climate strategy with environmental science and engineering, bringing together climate specialists, engineers, hydrogeologists, modelers and other technical disciplines to determine how climate risks affect facilities, water supplies, remediation systems, supply chains and major capital projects. GSI says climate reporting should ultimately improve decisions about siting, design, insurance, capital allocation and longterm strategy. Once mostly a sustainability and disclosure exercise, climate scenario analysis increasingly tests whether business models, assets and investment plans remain viable under changing physical conditions and a lower-carbon economy. The practice is becoming more asset-specific and financially oriented, with hydrologists, engineers, operators and finance teams connecting climate hazards to operational consequences, costs and capital requirements.
Organizations are using scenario analysis to reconsider facility locations, alter drainage and cooling systems, elevate equipment, build redundancy, sequence capital investments and establish thresholds that trigger additional adaptation. GSI sees enterprise risk management as the bridge between analysis and implementation, assigning ownership, comparing climate risks with other enterprise risks and determining acceptable levels of exposure. Successful companies will treat adaptation as an ongoing discipline using forward-looking information, scenarios and adaptive pathways to preserve flexibility, reduce vulnerabilities and identify investments or strategies that can strengthen long-term competitiveness.
Originally published in: CCBJ Volume XIX, Numbers 7-8-9: Third Quarter 2026, Adaptation & Resilience 2026
Read the feature in Climate Change Business Journal: https://ebionline.org/product/climate-change-business-journal-volume-xix-numbers-7-8-9-q3-2026-adaptation-resilience/