CORPORATE ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

A WEB-BASED SUBSCRIBER RESOURCE & REPORT SERVICE

O SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW O KNOWLEDGE-BASED EDUCATION AND

EMPOWERMENT O PROJECTIONS SERVICE

© ETHICSCAN: NOT FOR REPRODUCTION WITHOUT PERMISSION

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BUSINESS MODEL

• Subscription service• Web-based Member service• EthicScan quality assurance• Empower decision-making through

spreading technically sound, non-political, information

• Enhance university-based scientists’ role as providers for services

1.2

SERVICE PLATFORM LOGIC

1.3

LITERATURE REVIEW (1)

• Access, summarize and assess ongoing literature by type of source, models used, activity sector, and geography

• On-line summary and evaluation• Distinguish mitigation from adaptation• Promote climate change adaptation

literacy• At a click, direct access to full report

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LITERATURE REVIEW (2)

REFERENCE Number Pages Country/Region Activity Sector(s) Source Type (1-8) Risk Model Decision-Making

Model Scenario Decades

CONTENT ANALYSIS Explanation

assumptions Quality science Accessibility language One hundred word

summary Tier 1, 2, 3 Journal HARM Triangle

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LITERATURE REVIEW (3)

Adaptation literature in EnglishNot take a position on science or politics

involvedTransparent, accountable and unbiasedRigorous user-perspective assessment

of content and quality of literature, with possibility of click through, direct access

2.3

KNOWLEDGE-BASED EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT (1)

Seminars on Emerging Scientific Literature Knowledge-Based Forums Referral and Customized Literature Searches Assess Significance of Forecast Assumptions Co-funding of Prospective Customized

Forecast Engagements Reviewer and Speaker Registry

3.1

KNOWLEDGE-BASED EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT (2)

Questions We Can Answer• Corporate Reporting Consensus• Who Is Saying They are Doing What, Where and

When• Literature Consensus• Literature Gaps

Questions We Cannot Answer• Right Choices in Hindsight• Best Practices

3.2

PROJECTIONS SERVICE (1)

Enhance sustainable funding and new commissioned work from businesses for existing climate science-based centres

Foster direct dialogue between business client users and scenario or projections service providers

Collaboration, not competition, among respected information providers

Knowledge transfer that empowers scientists and informs business subscriber-customized assumptions

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PROJECTIONS SERVICE (2)

Access regional/country climate change projections, scenarios and/or forecasts by geography, decade, assumptions, HARM triangle assessment, and high/medium/low impacts

Long range: 10, 50, 100 yearsUser-specified regionsSubscriber-customized assumptions

4.2

PROJECTIONS SERVICE (3)

OURANOS Consortium (UQAM, Hydro Quebec) climate modelling

Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (U Vic, BC Hydro, BC govt) climate modelling

PCIC, PICS, CCCma Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative

(U Regina) drought, water availability NES, GCSI: Ottawa Fisheries & Oceans

THESE NAMES ARE DISCUSSION STAGE AND EXPLORATORY ONLY

4.3

PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS: U.S.

United Nations, Caring For Climate Program

Dalberg AssociatesPew CentreAdaptability: the Climate Adaptation

Network (Facebook)Association of Climate Change Officers

THESE SUGGESTED NAMES ARE NEITHER COMMITTED NOR FOR ATTRIBUTION

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PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS: CANADA

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility

Conference Board of CanadaInternational Institute for Sustainable

DevelopmentNational Roundtable for the

Environment and Economy

THESE SUGGESTED NAMES ARE NEITHER COMMITTED NOR FOR ATTRIBUTION

5.3

PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS: UK

Tyndall Centre for Climate ChangeAcclimatiseSerco Science & Technology

THESE SUGGESTED NAMES ARE NEITHER COMMITTED

NOR FOR ATTRIBUTION

5.4

HIERARCHY OF STANDARDS

6.1

DO GOODDO GOOD

DO NO HARMDO NO HARM

MINIMIZE HARMMINIMIZE HARM

SERVICE FEES: 1. LITERATURE REVIEW STREAM

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION LITERACY ACCESS CITATIONS & EVALUATIONS DOWNLOAD ENTIRE ARTICLE, BOOK OPERATE USER DEFINED SEARCHES

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SERVICE FEES: 2. EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT

OVERVIEW OF RECENT REPORTS & FINDINGS RISK & REPUTATION ANALYSIS SECTORAL STUDIES & DIALOGUE SPREAD TECHNICALLY-SOUND INFORMATION

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SERVICE FEES: 3. PROJECTIONS STREAM

SCENARIO PROFESSIONALS REGISTRY DIRECT ENGAGEMENT & REFERRAL CLIMATE SCIENCE-BASED SEMINARS CO-FUNDED RESEARCH CONTRACTS

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