Small Business Climate Map

Create your map for navigating the climate related changes affecting your business

In a few minutes, see how weather, new rules, and changing customer habits could affect your cash, suppliers and customers, and what you can do about it.

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What is the Small Business Climate Map?

Small Business Climate Map is a set of simple online tools that shows how climate change could affect your business, your suppliers and your customers. It pulls together public data on weather, laws, costs and trade and turns it into plain-English views you can use in real decisions.

You do not need to be a climate expert. You type in a business or a supplier, and the tools show you what they are likely to face, when it might hit, and practical steps you could take.

Who it is for

People who run small businesses, are short on time, feel overwhelmed by new climate rules, and are not sure what they are meant to do about recording and reporting this stuff in their business.

What small business owners are actually saying

“Accessing tools for emissions reporting can be very expensive.”
“The first step is the hardest. Addressing climate change and transitioning your business to net zero can look like an impossible task.”
“I just don’t have the staff, expertise or resources to work on sustainability or climate change.”
— a refrain heard repeatedly in small-business interviews, surfaced by Downtown.org
“Some brands are making big green claims without the evidence.”
— Tim Etherington-Judge, founder, Avallen Solutions, on Green Claims Code risk, in The Spirits Business

And the surveys back it up

Just 13% of small businesses say they have the finances, 18% the skills, and 26% the knowledge to start the net zero transition. Only one in four expect to be net zero ready by 2050. FSB / Zurich, May 2025.
Over two-thirds of small business owners worry they do not have the right skills and knowledge to tackle climate change. Top reasons for delay: 63% skills, 48% funding, 40% time. SME Climate Hub survey.
A typical small pub, restaurant or independent retailer is paying over £5,000 more a year in energy bills than pre-crisis, with annual electricity bills hitting £13,264 by April 2025: 70% above 2020-21 levels. Cornwall Insight via Credit Connect.

And imagine, for example

Priya, who runs a small bakery supplying one of the big four supermarkets, has just been added to their supplier sustainability portal and wants to see how climate could squeeze her flour, butter and electricity costs over the next few years.
Tom, who exports to Germany and is sizing up a German competitor before committing to a market push, wants to know what weather, rules and customer pressure that competitor is already under.
Steve, who runs a small construction firm bidding for an NHS-funded project, where the tender asks for a Carbon Reduction Plan and he has never measured his emissions before.
Maria, who runs a florist with two vans and a chilled workshop, wants to know which one or two changes would cut her carbon footprint the most without breaking the bank.
Ahmed, a specialist cheesemaker who buys 80% of his milk from one local farm, wants to understand how exposed he would be if that farm closed or had a bad season.
Lucia, who runs a village café facing a fourth winter of high energy bills, wants practical ideas other small cafés have actually used to cut costs and keep customers coming in.
Sarah, who runs a skincare brand and wants to put “made with natural ingredients” on her labels, needs to know what evidence she needs to avoid an ASA complaint or a CMA letter.
What you can do here

Use one, a few or all of the tools. Each one answers a different question. Together, they give you a picture of how climate change could shape your work, your suppliers and your customers, that you can use to create your climate map for your business.

Where the answers come from

Every line in the tools links back to public data. For example, when you see "high flood risk in 2040," it is based on city risk data and climate science, not guesswork.

The tools draw on World Bank, IPCC, NGFS, Climate Policy Radar, UN Comtrade, DEFRA, SASB and city-level flood, heat, drought and storm data, plus 30+ more sources, all linked so you can check them yourself.

World Bank
country-by-country numbers on money, jobs, weather, services.
IPCC
three different ways climate change could play out.
NGFS scenarios
what central banks, banks and lenders are bracing for.
Climate Policy Radar
database of climate laws, policies and UN submissions.
UN Comtrade
who's buying and selling what, country to country.
DEFRA
the UK government's carbon numbers; what the Logbook does its sums against.
SASB
for any industry, the sustainability bits that actually matter.
City risk data
flood, heat, drought, storm risk, for 996 towns and cities.
Plus 30+ more, all linked.
What these tools are (and are not)

These tools surface signals from public data and invite you to act on them. They are a head start for your thinking, not financial, legal, investment or compliance advice. Your judgement, and when needed your accountant, insurer or lawyer, turns signals into decisions.