Bringing climate change into corporate boardrooms @ EcoHackSF

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1. It’s Happening. Here and Now. Bringing Climate Change into the Corporate Boardrooms of America
2. Climate Change is a Business Risk
3. From the supply chain to production & distribution Will Chipotle continue to make guacamole?
4. Can Facebook Swim?
5. Yet climate change is perceived as a something remote
6. It’s happening to the others
7. Or to charismatic megafauna
8. But not to “us”
9. How do we bring climate change home?
10. There is no shortage of good data Quite the opposite...
11. With a lot of technical date and modeling...
12. But who has time to read all these reports?
13. Oh, but what to do? • How do we make the available science... • Relevant? • User-friendly? • Business-oriented?
14. The Project • Build a business climate risk calculator • Where are you located? • What do you do? • Get your Risk Score
15. The data • National Climate Assessment (May 2014) • high-level (regional) data • or very granular, detailed data • Other data sources
16. The Team • We need people who... • ...like data and data visualization • ...are climate science wiz • ...can build a nifty UI
17. Objectives • A workable prototype with at least a few impacts / sectors covered • Think about how to move the needle • Have fun!
18. Why should you care? • If businesses understand that climate change can hurt them too, they might do something about it.
19. About me • Climate change entrepreneur • Building tools to help businesses understand climate impacts • Develop adaptation strategies
20. Let’s do it! Emilie Mazzacurati, Four Twenty Seven emazzacurati@427mt.com - 415 420 0074