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Climate Change as a Business Continuity Risk: Why Resilience Professionals Need to Act Now – DRI’s Rachael Elliott for Resilience Forward

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“For senior management, climate change increasingly represents a strategic risk to value creation rather than a ‘mere’ corporate responsibility issue, as it has been historically. For business continuity and resilience practitioners, it presents a challenge to ensure that long-term, systemic threats are addressed within frameworks that have historically focused on discrete, time-bound incidents.” DRI Director of Global Strategy and Innovation Rachael Elliott explains why climate change impacts should be addressed by business continuity and resilience practitioners as a current priority for Resilience Forward. Keep following Drive for Elliott’s next contribution!