Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Climate Intelligence: Using Climate Data to Improve Business Decision-Making
On this two-week course, you learned how to identify relevant and reliable climate data for your business and explored how that raw data can be converted into information that connects with the particular operational and financial decisions you face.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
David Brayshaw
Professor of Climate Science
University of Reading
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate the risks to your business that climate variability and climate change pose.
- Describe how predictions are made from historic data and climate models, understand the fundamental science behind them and be aware of pitfalls in interpreting them to enable strategic planning months, years and decades ahead.
- Assess various types of climate data to identify what's most suitable for your needs and how it can be converted into climate intelligence, tailored for your own particular business.
- Explain what resources and skills are needed to mitigate the risk to your business activities from weather and the changing climate.
Syllabus
- The risks to business operations and finances that extreme weather events, climate change and climate variability present.
- How weather and climate projection data can be harnessed to mitigate the risks to businesses.
- Case studies show how businesses in different sectors have used different types of data to build climate resilience in their organisations.
- Understand the importance of forecast data in planning and managing uncertainty.
- Applying climate data in business decision-making.
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Issued on 6th May 2026
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