Delivering Better Outcomes.

Climate Resilience is a civil engineering risk, governance and advisory firm, based in Brisbane.

We combine science and data insights with extensive leadership, project and engineering expertise to help clients navigate the evolving natural hazard risk landscape.

We support our clients to make decisions today that will stand the scrutiny of tomorrow.

Services

Infrastructure and Assets

Flood, Drought & Water

Enterprise Risk

Wet Weather Risk

Natural hazard learnings and monitoring

Global Insights

Data Monitoring

About

Climate Resilience is a Brisbane based firm, founded in 2022 providing engineering risk, governance and advisory services related to existing and future natural hazard risk.

We have been engaged by a growing cohort of well-known clients for projects relating to critical infrastructure, engineering design, construction, benchmarking, due diligence and community safety.

We believe in the importance of learning lessons and our events database contains cultural, risk, legal, operational, and other learnings from significant natural hazard events globally. Such learnings are a cornerstone of successful resilience practice to remain safe, sustainable, and competitive.

Check out our data and decision tools to see what risk information or hazard metrics others are using to inform, or add context to the management of natural hazard risk.

Some of the reasons clients like us:

You’ll never get a variation from us once contracts are signed. Guaranteed.

‘Give back’ program to support projects for community benefit.

A consultant who has done the job for 25 years with unique, tested experience.

Capability uplift for your people is part of the deal.

A focus on your unique problem solving; you won’t get generic solutions.

Paradise Dam November 2021.

Climate Resilience Founder

James is an Executive and Company Director with over 25 years as a risk and governance professional with enterprise risk, infrastructure assurance, major projects and operations experience in both the public and private sectors in the UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, and Peru.

With a technical background in climate, weather and water, he has held senior and executive roles in organisations with large, complex and geographically dispersed operations. Accountabilities included capital planning prioritisation for a large dam portfolio, regulatory compliance, incident response, dam safety and operational technology. He also led Queensland flood warning at the Bureau of Meteorology and has overseen over 50 dam safety emergency plan activations that have included piping, earthquakes, record floods and gate vibration. Such roles require calm, timely decision making with sound judgement whilst operating under pressure with ambiguity.

Media experience includes ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, BBC and NHK.

James is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Engineer, and a Non-Executive Director. He is Chair of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Climate Change Committee, and has been a Director of the USA National Hydrologic Waring Council since 2017.

Expert Network

James has access to the skills and support of a range of experts for broader project delivery.