Creating New Pathways to Assess Risks and Build Resilience
Innovative, informed and implementable solutions.
Climate change threatens communities and organizations by introducing new risks and/or exacerbating existing ones. Innovative evaluations and forward-thinking responses are essential to adapt and thrive.
Adjust to New Possibilities with TRC’s Climate Risk and Resilience Experts
TRC has established a leading climate risk and resilience capability that specializes in assessing climate vulnerability and risk, evaluating and prioritizing adaptation strategies and producing implementable and actionable climate plans for clients. We work at the forefront of the state-of-practice using the current climate data, assessment techniques and methods, financial cost estimates, strategy verification and performance metrics, to deliver informed and implementable solutions.
Seamlessly Integrated Climate Risk and Resilience Solutions that Answer Any Built or Natural Imperative
Climate risk and resilience solutions are supported by TRC’s deep technical and implementation capabilities in the U.S. and globally. In addition, we established the TRC Climate Resilience Center, which focuses on data-driven learning, best practices and information exchange.
Advising Investors and Partners
Climate Risk Due Diligence
Our proprietary Climate and Physical Rapid Risk Screening Tool is customizable for each client. This evaluation identifies which physical hazards pose the greatest risk to physical assets today and under future climate conditions. If available, financial and other critical information may be used to inform the implications of identified risks to the facilities and business continuity.
Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is a leading framework for how partners should disclose information about the risks and opportunities posed by climate change. Our TCFD methodology is grounded in robust, defensible and informative analyses using multiple climate scenarios. Our products provide a detailed understanding of climate-related physical and transition risks/opportunities with quantified financial impacts, which can then be used to reduce or mitigate the risks and create value.
Advising a Wide Range of Industries: From Utilities, Transportation Agencies and Water Authorities to Communities
Related Materials
Climate Advisory for Transit Agencies
Climate Advisory for Transit Agencies Published December 12, 2022
Community Action Plans
TRC conducts climate vulnerability and risk assessments to evaluate systems, assets and populations at risk today and into the future under a changing climate while leveraging geospatial data and GIS to illustrate exposure and risks. These assessments inform climate action plans and provide a roadmap of implementable strategies and actions to reduce these risks and build resilience. Through this work, we engage stakeholders through public surveys, newsletters, meetings and presentations.
Organizational Resilience
Resilience can be built into an organization’s governance, policies, plans, procedures, staffing and facilities to strengthen organizational resilience. An assessment typically identifies — (1) where an organization has already begun to implement strategies that are also best practices in climate resilience; (2) opportunities to expand, extend or accelerate climate resilience; and (3) gaps where new strategies or policy updates may be needed to address climate risks.
From there, we advise on investments, new development, infrastructure projects, and other initiatives to build an organization’s resilience to climate change. Throughout the process, we remain actively engaged with the organization to ensure our approach and recommendations align with their day-to-day operations.
Transportation and Utilities
Working closely with clients, TRC assesses which assets are vulnerable and at risk to climate change. Next, we prioritize the risks and identify implementable strategies based on costs, effectiveness and co-benefits. Then we create a plan of action for near- and long-term implementation and performance metrics to evaluate success. We recommend this plan be updated every five years.
Resilient Engineering
An asset should be assessed within the system in which it resides, that is, by understanding the localized environmental conditions and potential changes in landscape over time that may amplify or dampen the climate risk.
TRC applies our in-house tools — Climate Data Processing Model (CDaP), Climate and Physical Rapid Risk Screening Tool and AnalyzEJ, along with our experience in performing benefit-cost analyses and assessing financial and socioeconomic concerns. The results include defensible recommendations that build climate resilience into assets over their lifetime.
In addition, TRC’s Envision Sustainability Professionals (ENV SP) assess sustainability, resilience and equity in civil infrastructure to create climate-ready projects with long-term viability.
Environmental and Climate Justice
Our staff’s strategic and regulatory expertise and experience allow us to provide recommendations and suggest options for addressing Environmental Justice issues for consideration. We help clients identify potentially sensitive issues.
From community assessments and culturally competent stakeholder engagement to project impact analyses, we are well-equipped with data, GIS mapping and community understanding to mobilize projects meeting both business and stakeholder needs.
Environmental Remediation
Awareness of climate change impacts on remediation projects has increased the need to ensure remedial strategies will remain effective and protective against a future of extreme weather. Climate change can challenge the integrity of remediation engineering controls and result in power outages to critical systems, which can cause the release of hazardous materials or covered contaminants into the environment.
Drawing from decades of experience, TRC’s Environmental Construction and Remediation Group, along with our climate resilience experts, can develop site-specific strategies to mitigate potential future climate risks and protect against unnecessary and costly clean-up.
Mitigate Climate Risk and Build Resilience When You Partner With TRC
Prepare to withstand and recover from disruptions caused by climate change with minimal impacts and consequences. TRC is your partner in identifying climate-related risks and provides actionable solutions.
Fill out our contact form to learn more about how our climate risk and resilience solutions can support you now and for the future.
Sharing Our Perspectives
Our practitioners share their insights and perspectives on the trends and challenges shaping the market.
Regulators Update Design Storm Rainfall Depths in Response to Climate Science Projections and Recent Storm Data
August 3, 2023
Regulators are responding to anticipated increases in extreme rainfall events by updating design storm rainfall depth regulations.
New Executive Order 14096 Broadens Environmental Justice Initiatives
May 9, 2023
Executive Order 14096, Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All, seeks to deepen the Biden administration’s “whole-of-government” approach to environmental justice (EJ) by fully integrating the consideration of unserved and overburdened communities and populations into all aspects of federal agency planning and delivery of services.
TRC Companies Inc. welcomes the Founder and Key Principals of ESG Advisory Firm Enzo Advisors, LLC
September 27, 2022
TRC Companies announces the expansion of its Climate Solutions offering and ESG capabilities with the addition of the Founder and CEO, and key members of Enzo Advisors, LLC
Climate Action and Environmental Justice are at the Forefront of EPA’s Strategic Plan
June 14, 2022
The EPA issued its Fiscal Year 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. Although the strategic plans emphases often change with administrations, we can be reasonably certain that the Plan reflects priorities through 2024.
Why Are ESG Frameworks Important?
April 13, 2022
ESG standards significantly impact long-term growth, leading many companies to integrate ESG reporting into their corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. ESG frameworks are broad and diverse, and establishing a reporting system that covers your industry’s most relevant metrics can be challenging.
10 Takeaways from the COP26 Climate Meeting
November 17, 2021
There are compelling reasons to be optimistic about the outcomes of the COP26 meeting. Notably, agreement among all nations that more needs to be done, by both private and governmental bodies, to contain and mitigate climate change.
