Private sector

Last updated 30 Oct 2026

Tourism can lead efforts to address extreme heat in Asia and the Pacific through affordable measures, early warning systems, worker protection and climate-resilient planning, with the H.E.A.T. Framework offering a practical approach.

Banks and insurers finance and protect many of the same homes, businesses and infrastructure, leaving them exposed to the same climate shocks. Yet they often assess these risks using different information, assumptions and time horizons.

An initiative by World Vision and VisionFund with catalytic support from The Coca-Cola Foundation, SIMS responds to growing climate pressures by helping protect local enterprises, markets and economic opportunity in Malawi and Zambia.

This report analyzes how MSMEs in EMDEs adapt to climate change using WBES data, finds adaptation is more widespread than assumed yet underreported, shows finance as a key constraint, and presents an MSME Adaptation Finance Typology to inform solutions.

The construction industry is developing a more comprehensive approach to climate change as deadly heat waves pose growing risks to both workers and project deadlines.

2026/27 El Niño could amplify existing vulnerabilities in commodities, energy and logistics. Organizations that combine scenarios and make shared dependencies visible can act sooner and better protect their strategy, business model and financial position.

The Supreme Court opened its 2026-2027 term Monday with a climate case: a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, against Exxon Mobil and Suncor, a Canadian oil company, over the costs of a warming planet.

This paper draws on about two decades of firm-level records from Tunisia’s formal business registry (Répertoire National des Entreprises), linking firm locations to satellite-based precipitation measures at the delegation level.