Tools to see how climate change could hit your business

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.

For example:

• Steve, who wants to bid for NHS work and has just found out he needs a Carbon Reduction Plan before he can submit, and has never written one.
• Maria, who runs a busy café and has been told by her bank she needs to show how she is dealing with climate risk before they renew her loan.
• Ahmed, who supplies a supermarket and has to answer new climate questions in their supplier portal so he does not lose the contract.
• Lucia, who owns a small workshop and wants to bid for government work, but keeps hitting climate questions in the procurement notices and is too busy to read the long guides.
• Sarah, who runs a local service business and wants to promote how green her business is to win new clients, without falling foul of the new advertising rules and the Green Claims Code.

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.

• Supply Chain Map
  How could changes in weather, rules and customer demand hurt or help your business, your suppliers and your customers?
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• One Business View
  How could changes in weather, rules and customer demand affect a competitor, a new market or a supplier you are looking at?
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• Emissions Logbook
  How do you measure, calculate and record your emissions?
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• Emissions Playbook
  What practical steps can you take to reduce your emissions?
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• Dependency Map
  How exposed are you if you lose a key supplier or customer?
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• Climate Solutions
  How can you learn from what people are doing about climate impacts in other parts of the world, and use those ideas where you are?
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• Green Claim Check
  Do you have the right evidence to back up a green claim you want to make?
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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.

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.