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Small Business Climate Adaptation Toolkit

A guide for small business owners to build climate-resilient businesses

This interactive toolkit is designed to help small business owners prepare for the impacts of climate change by building an adaptation plan for their business. The small business adaptation toolkit is a seven-step process to help business owners:

  1. Get into the mindset for adaptation

  2. Understand the climate impacts in their area

  3. Understand the vulnerability of their business

  4. Consider the risks and opportunities for their business

  5. List the adaptation options (short and long term)

  6. Develop an action plan for adapting their business

  7. Implement, check and review their adaptation action plan.

The toolkit should take 45 to 90 minutes to complete and can be downloaded below, with a literature review

This toolkit has been piloted with a selection of small businesses local to the SECCCA region across a variety of sectors. Their case studies are further down the page

Toolkit

Download the toolkit (PDF)

Video

Skip video to 18 minutes to watch a live run through of how to use the toolkit.

Literature review

This desktop literature review intends to provide users of the small business climate adaptation toolkit with information, and links to other resources, to delve more deeply into the background of the toolkit, adaptation options, and climate change.

Sector case studies

Professional services

Appendix 1: Project Methods

Appendix 2: Letter of Consent & Project Summary

Real estate

Food manufacturing

Industrial manufacturing

Acknowledgements

This project was delivered in 2022 by Science into Action and funded by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) through the Supporting Our Regions to Adapt program, as part of the Greater Melbourne Regional Climate Change Adaptation Strategy.

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This report outlines the project outputs, methodology, findings and recommendations.

Project report