Your need to know business guide to escalating climate risk

Madeleine Cuff
clock • 6 min read

The Committee on Climate Change's latest climate change risk assessment highlights the many potential impacts of global warming on the UK - but what are the major threats for businesses?

The Committee on Climate Change's latest report on the risk global warming poses to the UK makes for sobering reading. Even with a global average temperature rise of between two and three degrees this...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

Madeleine Cuff
Author spotlight

Madeleine Cuff

View profile
More from Madeleine Cuff

From SEMTA to Enginuity: Engineering skills body rebrands

Inside Enginuity's plan to build a workforce for the future

More on Risk

'Perfect storm': Property insurance claims hit record high in 2025
Risk

'Perfect storm': Property insurance claims hit record high in 2025

UK property insurance claims expected to reach £6.1bn in 2025, with £1.6bn of claims related to escalating climate impacts

Amber Rolt
clock 13 February 2026 • 2 min read
How can businesses better integrate climate resilience into their core strategies?
Risk

How can businesses better integrate climate resilience into their core strategies?

As climate impacts become clearer, most firms are still only at the foothills of building robust resilience strategies - BusinessGreen's latest roundtable heard from a range of sustainability execs on how they are grappling with escalating risks

Michael Holder
Michael Holder
clock 11 February 2026 • 8 min read
It's official: Biodiversity loss is a threat to UK national security
Risk

It's official: Biodiversity loss is a threat to UK national security

The UK's latest national security assessment warns potential socio-economic implications from biodiversity loss are significant - firms must evaluate how such a future scenario will impact their business model and strategy, writes Nature Positive's Tom...

Tom Mason, Nature Positive
clock 09 February 2026 • 5 min read