Natural Hazard Governance and Advisory

We go beyond assumptions to allow balanced, informed, and practical decision making.

We establish good governance and process, and learn from global weather and climate events to ensure your community, infrastructure or business has a plan, and is prepared.

In doing so, we deliver better outcomes for community safety, infrastructure, and business.

Services

Dam Safety & Asset Governance Advisory

Warning and Forecasting Advisory

Enterprise and Board Advisory

Wet Weather & Contracts

Natural hazard learnings and monitoring

Disaster Learnings database

Hazard data and decision tools

Our approach

Climate Resilience is based in Brisbane, Australia and specialises in natural hazard governance and advisory with a focus on engineering, construction, business, and disaster planning.

Founded in 2022, we have been engaged by a growing cohort of well-known clients for projects relating to atmospheric and hydrological hazards including community warning strategies, maturity assessments, risk and governance frameworks, and physical risk for financial disclosure.

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. 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 Climate Resilience:

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 organisation is part of the deal.

A focus on your decision support needs; you won’t get generic solutions.

It’s not about a tick box exercise, we deliver practical outcome with transformative impact.

Rain falling on a tree-lined suburban street

Inner Brisbane, February 2022

Our founder

James Stuart is a Company Secretary, Non Executive Director and Chartered Engineer with 25 years of experience and deep understanding in the management of natural hazard risk and governance. His experience includes UK, Australia, Canada, and Peru in both the public, and public sectors.

He has held senior operational and executive roles in large corporations where he has been responsible and accountable for dam safety, community warning, crisis response and implementation of physical risk assessments and mitigation for projects. He also managed Queensland flood warning at the Bureau of Meteorology until 2012. Such roles require calm decision making under extreme pressure and provides tested experience as a basis to provide advice.

James is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Engineer in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a certified Business Continuity professional and is currently co-opted to the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Climate Change Committee and has been a Director of the USA National Hydrologic Waring Council since 2017.