
Future Ready
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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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TOM LEWIS, international consultant and business leader, advises global organizations promoting sustainable and resilient infrastructure and technologies, environmental and climate stewardship, and disaster preparedness and recovery.
ALASTAIR (ALY) MACGREGOR's industry-leading career in high- performance design has ranged from individual net zero buildings to strategic portfolio decarbonization, and spans four continents.
Content
Foreword xiii
Introduction: Superstorm Sandy 1
Chapter 1: Rethink Everything 7
Part I: Touring a Dynamic World 31
Chapter 2: On the Street 33
Chapter 3: On the Move 65
Chapter 4: Below the Surface 105
Chapter 5: In the Big Apple 129
Part II: How to Design and Implement Your Organization's Sustainability Journey 153
Chapter 6: Define, Measure, and Set Targets 157
Chapter 7: Tools and Technologies 171
Chapter 8: Reporting Risk and Assessing Vulnerability 183
Chapter 9: Building Support Inside and Out 203
Chapter 10: Nature- Based Solutions from Coast to Coast 213
Conclusion: The Right Future, the Right Way 233
Epilogue: When You Rethink Everything, Finance Will Flow 239
Afterword: Ready, Steady, Breath...Go! 249
Afterword: Why There's No I in Team-or CRS 251
Acknowledgments 255
About the Authors 259
Glossary 261
Index 269
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