Anglia Ruskin University's Global Sustainability Institute and Mott MacDonald have published a report making clear that building climate resilience is essential to future business survival - and that doing so will also bring commercial opportunity.

Limits to the availability of key natural resources (such as land, food, water and oil) and climate change have been linked to social unrest and violent conflict. Analysis that ignores the reliance of society and the economy on natural resources underestimates the exposure to systemic risks.