Climate Intelligence: Climate Data to Improve Business Decisions
Build climate resilience in your business as you learn how climate intelligence helps make decisions that mitigate risks with this online course from the University of Reading.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for business professionals with a responsibility for governance, strategy, and risk.
You may be an analyst, business development manager, or consultant looking to advance your career and evaluate your organisation’s exposure to climate risk.
What topics will you cover?
The risks to business operations and finances that extreme weather events, climate change and climate variability present.
How weather and climate projection data can be harnessed to mitigate the risks to businesses.
Case studies show how businesses in different sectors have used different types of data to build climate resilience in their organisations.
Understand the importance of forecast data in planning and managing uncertainty.
Applying climate data in business decision-making.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Evaluate the risks to your business that climate variability and climate change pose.
Describe how predictions are made from historic data and climate models, understand the fundamental science behind them and be aware of pitfalls in interpreting them to enable strategic planning months, years and decades ahead.
Assess various types of climate data to identify what’s most suitable for your needs and how it can be converted into climate intelligence, tailored for your own particular business.
Explain what resources and skills are needed to mitigate the risk to your business activities from weather and the changing climate.
