A resilient future will not be built by ambition alone. It will be built by organisations that can demonstrate what works.
Resilience against climate change is becoming a strategic priority for businesses worldwide. Yet resilience projects and solutions often receive less visibility, recognition, and investment than climate mitigation initiatives.
To help shift this reality, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) launched the Climate Resilience Awards for Business. Following a successful first edition in 2025, the initiative returns for a second year to further spotlight business leadership and innovation in climate adaptation and resilience.
We identify, evaluate, recognise, and showcase leading examples of business resilience action that deliver measurable and credible outcomes.
Our ambition: Make business resilience action more visible, measurable, investable, and scalable.
Applications are now open
Key Dates
Application opens: 23 June 2026
Application deadline: 30 September 2026
Finalists announced: To be announced
Award ceremony & winners announced: To be announced
Why these awards matter
Businesses are already investing in resilience, but many projects remain invisible.
The Climate Resilience Awards for Business aim to:
- Recognise business leadership in climate resilience and adaptation
- Establish the state-of-play of business resilience action today
- Showcase credible and measurable resilience outcomes
- Share lessons learned by publishing high-quality case studies to inspire others
- Accelerate resilience solution implementation across sectors and geographies
- Strengthen the business case and strategic importance for resilience for business
Award categories
Businesses can submit case studies under four categories:
Building Climate-Proof Infrastructure
This category celebrates projects that strengthen the resilience of the built assets, facilities, energy systems, transport systems, industrial operations and other critical infrastructure of businesses, municipalities, and communities against acute and chronic climate change-related hazards.
Promoting Water Stewardship
This category highlights businesses’ efforts put into managing water stress and ensuring water security by addressing flood, drought, and water management, in particular with solutions that prevent water-related disruption or improve the security of water supply for business and communities.
Safeguarding Agriculture & Food Systems
This category recognises companies that build resilience across agriculture and food systems, from agricultural production to processing, storage, logistics, and distribution, helping ensure food security and nutrition in the face of climate-related physical risks and supply chain disruptions.
Protecting People First
This category focuses on projects that strengthen the capacity of workers, customers, value chain partners and communities to cope with, adapt to, and transform in response to climate change.
Who can apply?
Applications are open to business organisations of all sizes, sectors, and geographic locations. Both of the following applicant types are welcome:
Resilience & Adaptation Implementers
Organisations improving the resilience or adaptive capacity of their operations, assets, people, infrastructure, within and beyond their value chain.
Resilience Solution Providers
Organisations offering products, services, technologies, financing, or advisory support as part of their business model that help their clients, customers or other beneficiaries become more resilient against climate change.
Solution providers are encouraged to submit applications that provide information on project implementation and resilience impact from their client’s perspective to demonstrate the resilience outcomes in practice.
SMEs and corporates compete separately
To ensure fair competition and comparability between organizations of different scales, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) compete separately from large companies and multinational organizations within each award category.
Why apply?
Gain recognition & credibility
Receive independent recognition for your organization’s leadership in climate resilience and adaptation through a robust and credible evaluation process and by a globally acclaimed jury.
Increase visibility
Showcase your project to business leaders, investors, policymakers, resilience practitioners, media audiences, and potential partners.
Demonstrate impact
Highlight measurable resilience outcomes and communicate the value your project creates for business, people, nature, and climate.
Benchmark your progress
Compare your approach against leading practices and learn from organizations advancing resilience across sectors and geographies.
Join a community
Connect with a growing network of businesses, experts, and practitioners committed to accelerating climate resilience action for business.
Inspire action
Share lessons learned, contribute to the evidence base for resilience, and help shape emerging best practices for business resilience action worldwide.