This free, downloadable guide helps food and drink wholesale businesses in Scotland to understand climate risks and take practical steps to build their resilience.

The guide can help you:

• understand climate risks that could affect your business, such as rising temperatures, increased rainfall and flooding, extreme temperatures, and supply chain risk
• take practical steps to protect your people, premises, products, processes and places
• identify opportunities for growth through innovation, diversification and sustainable practices
• access additional tools, including the SME Resilience Checklist

The guide includes case studies from wholesale businesses and information on economic opportunities and other resources that you can use to prepare for the impact of climate change.

The guide was developed for the food and drink wholesale sector in Scotland but may also be useful for other supply chain and logistics businesses in any region.

It is available to download as a PDF document (1.96 MB).

The guide was developed by the Adaptation Scotland programme, which helps businesses prepare for and adapt to climate change. It is funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by the climate resilience charity Verture.

Anyone can download and use the guide.

The guide is free to download and use. However, there may be costs involved with implementing some of the recommended measures.

Food and drink wholesale businesses in Scotland, including wholesalers, distributors, and logistics providers.

It will take approximately 16 minutes to read the full guide.

Visit the Adaptation Scotland website for more information and to download the guide (PDF, 1.96 MB).