Climate Risk and Adaptation Planning

Programme Summary

Turn climate information into practical decisions about organisational resilience. Participants connect hazards with exposed assets, vulnerable operations and supply dependencies, then compare adaptation options across plausible futures. A business case develops a prioritised adaptation plan with owners, review triggers and transparent assumptions, helping teams distinguish adaptation from emission reduction and avoid measures that transfer or intensify risk elsewhere.

Training Objectives

1 Clarify climate hazards exposure and vulnerability; 2 Improve interpretation of scenarios and uncertain evidence; 3 Identify material operational climate risk pathways; 4 Evaluate feasible adaptation options and tradeoffs; 5 Develop accountable and adaptable resilience plans.

Learning Outcomes

1 Map hazards to exposed business dependencies; 2 Assess vulnerability using supplied contextual evidence; 3 Interpret scenarios without treating them as predictions; 4 Compare adaptation options and maladaptation risks; 5 Prepare an adaptation plan with review triggers.

Target Audience

Risk Managers; Business Continuity Managers; Sustainability Managers; Facilities Managers; Infrastructure Planners; Supply Chain Managers.

Target Industries

Utilities; Transport and Logistics; Real Estate; Manufacturing; Agriculture; Infrastructure Operators.

Course Contents

• Module 1 Climate Risk and Adaptation Foundations: Physical hazards exposure and vulnerability relationships; Acute chronic and compound climate effects; Adaptation mitigation and transition risk distinctions.
• Module 2 Business Boundaries and Dependency Mapping: Sites people assets and critical activities; Supply chains utilities and service dependencies; Time horizons and decision lifetimes.
• Module 3 Climate Evidence and Scenario Interpretation: Historical observations and projected climate information; Scenario ranges uncertainty and spatial limitations; Avoiding false precision and deterministic forecasts.
• Module 4 Risk Pathways and Vulnerability Assessment: Hazard to disruption and consequence chains; Existing controls sensitivity and adaptive capacity; Prioritising risks with transparent assumptions.
• Module 5 Adaptation Option Development: Operational physical ecosystem and supply responses; Risk avoidance flexibility and contingency measures; Short term actions and staged investment pathways.
• Module 6 Evaluating Options and Maladaptation: Effectiveness feasibility costs and distributional effects; Risk transfer lock in and unintended consequences; Robust choices across plausible future conditions.
• Module 7 Implementation Monitoring and Review: Owners budgets dependencies and response thresholds; Leading indicators adaptation outcomes and triggers; Learning from events and revising assumptions.
• Module 8 Climate Adaptation Planning Case: Assessing a fictional asset risk profile; Comparing options and explaining residual vulnerability; Presenting a phased adaptation and review plan.

Assessment

• 40 single best answer questions, including applied scenarios; one mark per question.
• 60 minute invigilated digital examination with identity verification. Approved accessibility adjustments preserve the assessed competence.
• Supplied reference pack and calculator permitted; external internet and AI prohibited.
• Individual applied assessment (30 minutes): Assess a supplied asset and supply dependency under two climate scenarios, prioritise risks, compare two adaptation options and prepare a phased plan with monitoring and review triggers.
• Assessment criteria: Coherent hazard exposure and vulnerability reasoning; Balanced option evaluation and uncertainty treatment; Practical actions owners and adaptive review triggers.
• Pass each component separately: 30/40 written marks (75%) and at least 70% on the applied task.
• Individual results and feedback are provided. One reassessment may follow coaching under the published enrolment terms.

Certification

• Successful learners receive a TQCSI Arabia digital Certificate of Successful Completion.
• The certificate records the learner name, exact programme title, teaching hours, completion date and unique verification reference.
• Verified identity, full attendance and separate written and applied passes are required; all mandatory critical criteria must be met.
• Proposed issue target: within 30 calendar days of approved results and settlement of applicable fees.
• Records climate risk and adaptation planning learning; it does not certify resilience, predict local climate outcomes or replace specialist engineering studies.
• Attendance confirmation may record completed hours for unsuccessful learners; it does not certify successful completion.

Programme Profile

Number of daysNumber of daysNumber of days

222

Total teaching hoursTotal teaching hoursTotal teaching hours

12 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.12 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.12 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.

Delegates allowedDelegates allowedDelegates allowed

Maximum 20 delegates.Maximum 20 delegates.Maximum 20 delegates.

Training prerequisitesTraining prerequisitesTraining prerequisites

Familiarity with business risk, facilities, operations or sustainability is recommended. Participants should interpret basic risk registers and scenario information.Familiarity with business risk, facilities, operations or sustainability is recommended. Participants should interpret basic risk registers and scenario information.Familiarity with business risk, facilities, operations or sustainability is recommended. Participants should interpret basic risk registers and scenario information.

Pre course assignment and assessmentPre course assignment and assessmentPre course assignment and assessment

Review a fictional asset and supply chain profile and complete a 30 minute climate risk terminology diagnostic.Review a fictional asset and supply chain profile and complete a 30 minute climate risk terminology diagnostic.Review a fictional asset and supply chain profile and complete a 30 minute climate risk terminology diagnostic.

End of course assessmentEnd of course assessmentEnd of course assessment

40 question written exam (60 minutes) and individual applied task (30 minutes).40 question written exam (60 minutes) and individual applied task (30 minutes).40 question written exam (60 minutes) and individual applied task (30 minutes).

Passing criteriaPassing criteriaPassing criteria

75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.