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Harnessing tech-driven resilience to create sustainable value

Our new report examines how tech-enabled climate adaptation strategies can safeguard business value chains and unlock sustainable growth opportunities

As climate risks intensify, businesses across all sectors face imminent threats to their value chains, from raw material scarcity to infrastructure damage. Our new joint study examines how five emerging climate change technologies can help companies both protect existing value chains from climate risks and generate new opportunities arising from a changing climate through adaptation.

Featuring five real-world case studies implemented by Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini, the report offers actionable insights through a three-phase roadmap to guide organisations in embedding adaptation into strategy, operations, and ecosystems, thus converting this pressing challenge into a path toward sustainable growth.

Businesses across all sectors face five critical climate risks along their value chains – natural raw material scarcity, water and energy insecurity, infrastructure damage, market shifts, and impacts on human productivity. Our new report introduces a dual-pathway approach to implementing tech-driven climate adaptation strategies: protecting value by strengthening the resilience of existing systems, and creating value by transitioning to new, climate-resilient models. Companies face distinct challenges in each path, from understanding climate risks and enhancing operational resilience, to identifying viable alternatives and reducing dependency on vulnerable resources. We explore how five emerging climate change technologies – AI, drones, earth observation, IoT, and engineering biology – can help businesses navigate these challenges in pursuit of protecting and capturing sustainable business value.

Real-world case studies from Cambridge Consultants

Drawing on case studies implemented by Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini, the report illustrates how these technologies are being applied to address three of the most pressing risks for all businesses: securing raw materials, enabling water and energy security, and building resilient infrastructure.

To guide business action, we present a three-phase roadmap – Build a Foundation, Launch & Growth, and Scale Up phases – to help organisations embed adaptation into strategy, operations, and ecosystems. This structured approach facilitates a move beyond climate risk management by also capturing burgeoning opportunities for sustainable growth.

Climate adaptation: Harnessing tech-driven resilience to create sustainable value

As climate change accelerates, businesses face five risks to their value chains. We examine how five climate change technologies support businesses to protect value and create growth, offering a three-phase roadmap and real-world case studies to guide strategic climate adaptation.

Download the report here

From risk to resilience: A strategic shift

By following Capgemini’s three-phase roadmap outlined in this report, companies can move decisively from addressing climate risks to generating sustainable value. This tactical approach empowers organisations to strengthen resilience, seize emerging opportunities, and embed climate adaptation strategies into and beyond their core operations – turning ambition into quantifiable, future-proof business value.

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This is part of our wider offer to organisations worldwide: Sustainable Futures Performance. Our unique combination of sustainability, technology, data, science and engineering experts, coupled with deep industry knowledge, empowers our clients to bring to life a holistic sustainability ambition across their entire organisation and value chain. From strategy to operations, we can support you to accelerate your sustainability transformation, at scale today.

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Rory Burghes

Vice President | Sustainable Futures | Capgemini Invent UK 
Rory leads Capgemini Invent UK’s Sustainable Futures team, helping clients achieve their sustainability ambitions from strategy to digital transformation. He has over 25 years’ experience as a strategy and transformation expert, focussed on bringing innovation to transform business and delivering complex change for international organisations. He is also responsible for Capgemini UK’s Sustainability Centre of Excellence and is a member of the UK Decarbonisation Board.

Liza Garay-de Vaubernier

Global Head of Sustainable Insurance

Sriya Mohanti

Program Manager, Global Co-Lead Sustainable Futures Impact Lab, Capgemini Invent India
Sustainability Advisory at Capgemini Invent India

Georgia Rolfe

Sustainable Technologies Consultants – Climate Adaptation and Resilience Lead, Cambridge Consultants, Capgemini Invent
Georgia leads climate adaptation and resilience at Cambridge Consultants, exploring the critical role of technology in future-proofing both businesses and society. Focusing on delivering valuable, scalable, and sustainable solutions to complex, systemic problems—always with an emphasis on real-world impact.

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