How Fashion and Apparel Companies Can Build Business Resilience
Climate and Nature Risk is Business Risk for Fashion and Apparel
Transitioning profitably towards the low-carbon economy is presenting global fashion and apparel companies with unprecedented market challenges. We can help.
As climate volatility intensifies, access to advanced data analytics is essential to identify risks across the value chain, close gaps in diverse supply chains, and integrate financially quantified transition risks and opportunities into strategic planning for business resilience and growth.
How We Help
In an era of economic, geo-political and environmental uncertainty global fashion and apparel companies face unprecedented market challenges. The Risilience-powered platform, Riise, and team of specialists support global fashion and apparel companies to quantify, strategize, and deliver on the financial impacts of climate and nature risks and opportunities, building business resilience and growth.
How Risilience Supports Fashion and Apparel
Riise Solution
Reporting and Disclosure
Riise supports organizations to meet their global sustainability reporting obligations covering physical and transition risks across climate and nature with accuracy, consistency, traceability and credibility.
Quantify risks and opportunities from climate and nature-risk using financial metrics that the business understands to move beyond regulatory requirements and drive strategic resilience.
With a commercially focused approach, Riise enables the assessment of financial materiality across short-, medium- and long-term horizons under multiple emissions scenarios.
Our outputs are aligned with global reporting frameworks including TCFD, CSRD, SB 261 and TNFD, among others, ensuring regulatory readiness and strategic foresight.
Riise quantifies the financial impact of both transition and physical climate and nature risks, supporting commercially relevant insights for use across the business from executive leadership to individual business units, product categories, facilities, EHS, risk, finance, sustainability and procurement.
Riise delivers improved strategic planning, greater business resilience, aligned financial and sustainability outcomes, and informed, data-driven decision making.
Riise Solution
Strategic Decision Support
Risilience operationalizes environmental intelligence across the business, driving future-focused decisions that strengthen long-term resilience to environmental risks.
Model multiple climate scenarios to inform future-proof strategic decisions, strengthening long-term resilience to environmental risks.
Riise helps businesses prepare for and take advantage of the economic growth of the transition to the low-carbon economy.
Sustainable businesses are more resilient to shocks from future carbon taxes, have better talent motivation and retention, and can avoid the downside shocks of technology change, stranded assets, liability and litigation penalties, and reputation damage.
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Transition Planning and Insights
Riise supports the creation of a credible and actionable transition plan, bringing together risk insights, financial quantification and fully costed initiatives into a single optimized view.
Risilience forecasts emissions to stress test transition plans under different emission pathways, providing confidence to hit decarbonization goals.
Riise enables businesses to stress test emission reduction forecasts considering different emission pathways and view the material impact of initiatives that drive net-zero goals.
Financially quantified information is captured to support the cost-benefit analysis of individual transition initiatives, employing Marginal Abatement Cost Curves to quantify reduction initiatives by maximum potential, technical feasibility and economic viability.
GHG emissions trajectories until 2050
Key Resources for Fashion and Apparel
Sustainability and Finance Leaders
Risilience Resource
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Discover why fashion leaders must quantify water scarcity now to protect production continuity and preserve enterprise value.
Don’t Just Take Our Word for It
We will use the Risilience platform to determine key risk areas for Burberry and understand their potential impact on our operations and extended supply chain. For example, it will help us to identify the raw materials and supply chain locations that have high exposure to climate change and will enable us to mitigate climate risks. These insights will inform how we adapt our strategy to future proof our business as well as identify opportunity areas for advancing a sustainable business.
Pamela Batty
Vice President of Corporate Responsibility
Burberry
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At Risilience, our mission is to help global organizations to build strategic resilience and grow business value in the era of climate disruption and economic uncertainty.
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