Climate risk assessment and adaptation planning for businesses
Climate risk assessments help businesses turn complex data, scenarios and uncertainty into practical decisions. Tonkin + Taylor helps clients understand physical and transition risks, test resilience and develop adaptation pathways that support business continuity and commercial objectives.
Whether protecting critical assets, maintaining business continuity or planning future investment, understanding climate risk helps businesses identify where and when action is needed to protect value and resilience.
We deliver climate risk assessments across New Zealand and a wide range of sectors, including finance, property, healthcare and agriculture.
Our broader engineering expertise supports work across development precincts, critical assets, infrastructure networks and national programmes.
Tonkin + Taylor was closely involved in New Zealand’s first National Climate Change Risk Assessment. We also advised the Ministry for the Environment on the methodology for the second assessment and adaptation plan.
Our integrated GIS, geotechnical, and water engineering capabilities show how natural hazards and climate change may affect assets, networks, services, operations, and supply chains. This helps clients understand where disruption could have the greatest business impact.
Our advice is practical and evidence-based, drawing on hazard science, engineering, environmental science, planning and engagement. We help clients move from climate risk assessment to action by comparing adaptation options, prioritising investment and identifying when measures are needed as risks change.
Our work supports business strategy, asset management, climate-related disclosure and implementation, helping organisations manage risk, build resilience and make better long-term decisions.
What we do
- Climate risk and opportunity assessments covering physical and transition risks
- Scenario development, analysis and resilience testing
- Climate-related financial disclosure support
- Adaptation, resilience and credible transition planning
- Dynamic adaptive pathways planning, including monitoring signals and decision triggers
- Natural hazard modelling
- Adaptation options assessment and investment prioritisation
- Loss and damage assessment
- Financial impact assessment and quantification
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting frameworks
- Community, mana whenua, iwi and stakeholder engagement
- Board, executive and staff workshops
We also support asset management planning, engineering feasibility, flood and stormwater resilience, nature-based design, cultural advisory services, data and digital tools, emergency management and business continuity, helping clients turn climate risk insight into practical action.
Talk to our climate risk and adaptation team today about your priorities.
