Future Ready

Future Ready

by Tom Lewis, Alastair MacGregor
Released May 2023
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781119894568

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Book description

Rethink climate, resilience, and sustainability for your organization

In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments. Through practical examples and proven insights, readers will learn to proactively engage with stakeholders, successfully plan, implement, and measure the impacts of their initiatives, and effectively communicate the results.

In the book, the authors draw on hundreds of completed projects across a full range of client organizations, markets, sectors, and scales to equip readers with unprecedented insights and the behind-the-scenes work that went into making the projects successful. The authors also include:

  • Strategies for identifying, cataloguing, and reporting risks—from the operational to the physical and transactional—as well as explanations of how climate risk scenarios can reveal hidden opportunities and unexpected vulnerabilities
  • A Future Ready mindset and the specific examples of organizational sustainability and climate adaptation commitments and the paths companies have taken to meet their goals
  • Critical questions that leaders must ask of themselves and their organizations before they begin a climate, resilience, and/or sustainability initiative

A must-read guide for executives, board members, ESG professionals, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders, Future Ready belongs in the hands of anyone who finds themselves responsible for helping an organization achieve their environmental, social, and governance goals.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Future Ready
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction: Superstorm Sandy
  8. 1 Rethink Everything
    1. Making Climate Risk Real
    2. Driving toward Zero
    3. System Failure
    4. Full Costs
    5. Solutions Everywhere
    6. Planning for an Uncertain Future
    7. Megatrends and Being Future Ready
    8. Future Ready Megatrend 1: Climate
    9. Future Ready Megatrend 2: Society
    10. Future Ready Megatrend 3: Technology
    11. Future Ready Megatrend 4: Resources
    12. Future Ready in Action
    13. Rethinking Everything
    14. Avoiding False Choices
    15. Notes
  9. PART I: Touring a Dynamic World
    1. 2 On the Street
      1. The Climate Bites Back
      2. Certifiable Transformations
      3. A Watershed Event
      4. Putting Net Zero on the Menu
      5. Phase Shifts in Cooling
      6. Electrifying Everything
      7. Around the World
      8. A Spring Training Facility for the Whole Year
      9. Sporting Sustainability
      10. People First
      11. The Other Carbon
      12. Mass Movement
      13. Reuse Everything
      14. Saving the Stump
      15. Data Dilemma
      16. Notes
    2. 3 On the Move
      1. EVolution
      2. Chasing Norway
      3. Rating Resilience
      4. Self-Assessing Threats
      5. Aloha State Resilience
      6. Induced Demand
      7. Intelligent Traffic
      8. Completing the Circle
      9. Off the Rails
      10. Getting on the Bus
      11. Making Transportation Whole
      12. Put a Lid on It
      13. Grounded by the Heat
      14. Flygskam
      15. Into the Bunker
      16. Multiple Pathways
      17. Greening the Fleets
      18. Decarbonization Hubs
      19. Straight Up
      20. Rescaling Maritime
      21. Moving Forward
      22. Notes
    3. 4 Below the Surface
      1. Sponge Cities
      2. Green Infrastructure
      3. Parking Lots and the First Flush
      4. Reclaiming an Urban Shoreline
      5. A Storage Breakthrough
      6. The Future Is Electric
      7. Land and Sea Power
      8. Storing the Sun and Wind
      9. Sharing the Wealth
      10. Lessons in Resilience
      11. Thinking Small
      12. A Journey Begins
      13. Rethinking Waste
      14. Lifting all Boats
      15. Notes
    4. 5 In the Big Apple
      1. How the Subway Went Underground
      2. Hold the Line
      3. On the Ocean's Edge
      4. Oysters to the Rescue
      5. Honoring a Vision
      6. Rain Catchers
      7. Paying the Price
      8. Regenerating the Past
      9. Shining Light
      10. Technological Inspiration
      11. The Mission that Never Sleeps
      12. Notes
  10. PART II: How to Design and Implement Your Organization's Sustainability Journey
    1. 6 Define, Measure, and Set Targets
      1. Measure to Manage: GHG Emissions
      2. Straight Science: SBTi
      3. Designing Forward and Backward
      4. Whole Product or Service: LCA
      5. Notes
    2. 7 Tools and Technologies
      1. Renewable Energy Options: RECs and PPAs
      2. Putting a Price On It: Carbon Markets
      3. Making the Final Push: Carbon Offsets
      4. Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
      5. Returning to Earth
      6. Notes
    3. 8 Reporting Risk and Assessing Vulnerability
      1. Spreading the Word: CDP, TCFD, and GRI
      2. Plausible Futures
      3. Mapping Bumps in the Road
      4. Waterworks and Risk
      5. Inducing Failure: ADAP
      6. Saving Safety Harbor
      7. Funding Your Plan: FEMA and BRIC
      8. Notes
    4. 9 Building Support Inside and Out
      1. Internal Buy-In
      2. External Buy-In
      3. Partnering on Bethlehem's Climate Action Plan
    5. 10 Nature-Based Solutions from Coast to Coast
      1. Shellshock
      2. Oyster-Based Solutions
      3. Cutting Edge Habitats
      4. First Line of Reefence
      5. The Two Ramonas
      6. Air Repair
      7. Virtuous Cycles
      8. Concrete Rivers
      9. The People's Crown Jewel
      10. Recycle Everything
      11. Notes
  11. Conclusion: The Right Future, the Right Way
    1. Beware False Choices
    2. Read the Room
    3. Beyond Doing the Right Thing
    4. Meeting Our Moment
    5. Note
  12. Epilogue: When You Rethink Everything, Finance Will Flow
    1. Climate Finance Arrives
    2. Future Ready Public Infrastructure
    3. Sustainable Design Drives Investment
    4. Notes
  13. Afterword: Ready, Steady, Breath…Go!
    1. Guiding Principles to Be Future Ready
  14. Afterword: Why There's No I in Team—or CRS
    1. Bucket 1: Internally Controlled, Internally Facing
    2. Bucket 2: Internally Controlled, Externally Facing and Influenced
    3. Bucket 3: Other Externally Facing and Influenced, Not Just Controlled Internally
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. About the Authors
  17. Glossary
  18. Index
  19. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Future Ready
  • Author(s): Tom Lewis, Alastair MacGregor
  • Release date: May 2023
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781119894568