Climate Action Routemaps - Business in the Community

Climate Action Routemaps

Discover how Climate Action Routemaps support businesses in implementing sustainable practices and enhancing resilience.

Climate Action Routemaps

Business in the Community’s Climate Action Routemaps provide practical guidance for businesses taking action to build resilience, reduce emissions and create long-term value for people, places and nature. They support the principles set out in Seven Steps for Futureproofing Business, helping organisations understand how climate action can strengthen business resilience, support employees and communities, and contribute to a fairer, more sustainable economy. 

Each routemap includes background information, practical guidance and examples to help businesses understand where to start, how to make progress and how to embed action across their organisation and value chain.

Building Green Skills

A practical guide to ensure your organisation and people have the skills to thrive as the economy changes because of, and in response to, the climate crisis. This routemap outlines the actions businesses can take to identify, build and embed the skills needed for a futureproofed economy. It helps organisations understand the skills implications of climate action, engage employees and support people to access new opportunities as business models, jobs and sectors change. 

Sponsored by BNP Paribas.

Download the Building Green Skills routemap

Involving Diverse Stakeholders with Climate Action

A practical guide to help businesses engage the people and groups affected by climate action. This routemap supports businesses to involve diverse stakeholders in climate action planning and delivery. It focuses on three areas: 

  • Map: recognise and engage your diverse stakeholders 
  • Involve: embrace challenges and value insight 
  • Act: demonstrate how stakeholder views are acted on. 

It can help businesses strengthen decision-making, build trust and ensure climate action delivers benefits for employees, customers, suppliers, communities and wider society. 

Sponsored by Royal London.

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Procurement is one of the major levers with a role to play in the transition to a circular economy. Circular procurement is about making the right choices throughout the procurement process to enable, encourage, and enforce circular business model decisions throughout your supply chain. It can drive the decision-making and purchasing process to bring benefits across the triple bottom line categories: 

Embracing Circular Economy Practices

A practical guide to reducing emissions and waste by keeping products and materials in use for longer. This routemap focuses on how businesses can reduce scope 3 emissions and waste while developing innovative products, services and business models to improve resilience. Using the maturity model, it helps businesses navigate through three stages:

  • Initiate: use circular economy principles as a design driver for products and services 
  • Collaborate: work with suppliers, customers and wider stakeholders to create systemic change 
  • Integrate: embed circular economy responsibility across departments so it becomes part of everyday business practice. 

Sponsored by ProCirc EU.

Download the Embracing Circular Economy Practices routemap

Further resources

Further resources to futureproof your business can be found on the Futureproofing Business Resource Hub (coming summer 2026).  

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