Irbaris has over a decade of experience advising businesses on effective climate change adaptation and resilience strategies, providing strategic guidance to prepare for fast-changing supply chains, regulatory pressures and consumer demands.

The impacts of climate change on business performance and value will be much more than just the physical impacts on individual sites. Worryingly, many formal risk management tools in business still do not fully capture these beyond-the-fence and systemic risks. Our approach to building resilience involves both specific risks to specific assets, as well as system-wide risks and impacts to business value. For over ten years, we have been using scenario analysis as a basis for planning to ensure companies are robust and flexible to a range of plausible science-based future outcomes.

We have also been using scenarios to explore the impact of future technologies, policies and environmental changes on business strategy for many years.  Such scenarios are designed to be more than a form of sensitivity analysis and can be very insightful and valuable tools for senior management. We use this expertise and know-how to help company boards and investors not only address the requirements for climate-related financial disclosures through initiatives such as the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), but also to develop truly resilient businesses.

Irbaris was also instrumental in establishing ImpactAgri, a company focused on the development, financing and implementation of sustainable climate resilient agribusinesses. We, therefore, have a depth of experience in integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies into agricultural businesses and food supply chains, including sustainable agroforestry, REDD+ methodologies (e.g., avoided deforestation), wood-free processing, precision farming methods (e.g., drip irrigation), regenerative grazing, soil health management, etc.