Our approach to client success:

Tahoma Environmental Consulting believes the definition of complex climate risks and opportunities is best approached by working collaboratively with the client as part of their team. This allows tasks to be defined and completed in response to a client’s unique objectives and concerns through an iterative embedded process that fits the client’s organization. Each client’s situation will vary, and some may need specific outside technical resources to assure necessary details are provided. Tahoma will coordinate the moving parts to support a client’s objectives, including to help identify necessary hired expertise as a complement to in-house resources and expertise.  

Challenges faced by organizations due to climate and severe weather impacts take many forms and may jeopardize valued assets in almost countless ways. In general terms, impacts may occur as increasingly severe or nuisance weather events that have immediate acute effects such as repeat flooding and accelerated erosion, or they may be incremental and slow to occur such as a rise in sea level that weakens physical barriers and slowly surges groundwater.  

While each organization is unique to some degree, all rely on owned or public infrastructure, a viable supply chain, the continuity of operations, an access to resources, stable employees and customers, and a predictable financial position. In response to climate and weather impact risks, each organization should routinely evaluate its exposure and strategically act on that knowledge through plans and ongoing monitoring. Individual responses may also benefit from collaboration with communities on a geographic regional basis or with others in the same public or private sector. It may also be possible for these impacts to ultimately present an opportunity to organizations that act early in incorporating climate parameters in ongoing planning processes.  

There is now no shortage of scientific data describing our changing climate in some detail in virtually all parts of the world. And it is now readily apparent that climate-driven impacts and risks are increasing throughout the world and perhaps close to home. All organizations should be using this information to best manage their affairs and, as necessary, be prepared to demonstrate their initiative before interested stakeholders whether in public or more private settings.    

Planning for and responding to climate impacts may require a significant strategic commitment of client resources. Tahoma will support a client through the preparation of data and decision recommendations that fit their unique management processes and sustainability objectives.