Climate Change Adaptation
Strengthen the resilience of your activities
Why adaptation is becoming essential
Historically, climate finance has focused on mitigation. Yet the impacts of climate change are already being felt: droughts, floods, and heatwaves disrupt value chains, increase insurance costs, and weaken infrastructure.
By 2023, companies were already four times more likely than in 2020 to assess their climate risks.. The European Union, through the CSRD, now requires detailed reporting on these risks and on adaptation plans.
Failing to anticipate these risks exposes your organization to:
- Rising costs (insurance, business losses, repairs)
- Reduced attractiveness to investors and talent
- Business interruptions due to extreme events
- Increasing regulatory risks
The cost of inaction is huge: according to the OECD, losses could reach up to 10–12 % of global GDP by 2100 if nothing is done.
Mitigation is essential. Adaptation is equally crucial.
Adaptation levers to strengthen your resilience
Adapting means implementing measures to anticipate climate risks and ensure business continuity. This can include:
- Production process adaptation: adjusting schedules during heatwaves, diversifying energy sources, optimizing water and energy use
- Operational adjustments: organizing work to limit employee exposure to hazards, strengthening crisis management procedures, ensuring business continuity
- Supply chain resilience: identifying high-risk areas, diversifying suppliers, relocating or securing logistics
- Nature-based solutions (NbS): maintaining or enhancing the resilience of sites or activities by preserving or restoring ecosystem regulation services
Nature-based solutions: a sustainable lever
Among these approaches, nature-based solutions (NbS) provide particularly relevant responses. They reduce risks while generating benefits for biodiversity, climate, and quality of life. Examples include:
- Wetland restoration → limit floods, improve water quality
- Greening industrial or urban sites → create cooling islands, protect employee health
- Developing diverse hedgerows → reduce erosion, store carbon, improve air quality
These approaches strengthen the link between adaptation, biodiversity, and climate. See also our Ecosystem Services page.
Regulatory & financial frameworks
Climate change adaptation is now guided by multiple frameworks. The CSRD requires companies to report on climate risks and associated adaptation plans, while the EU Green Taxonomy conditions access to certain financing on the implementation of robust adaptation measures.
Our support for your adaptation plans
Blooming assists you to:
- Identify climate risks and vulnerabilities in relation to your operations and value chain
Define adaptation priorities: processes, organization, supply chain, sites - Design adaptation plans integrating both operational adjustments and nature-based solutions
- Align your approach with international frameworks (CSRD, TNFD, SBTN) to combine compliance with sustainable value creation
Ready to strengthen your company’s resilience to climate change?
Contact Blooming to design and deploy adaptation plans aligned with your challenges.