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A guide to climate adaptation 

DSR & Partners – Climate Adaptation Advisors

The company

DSR & Partners helps companies become climate-resilient – with strategies, key performance indicators and solutions for a sustainable future.
Year of foundation: 

2023

Location(s):

Viersen

Sector:

Strategy consultancy

Founder:

Daniel Schmitz-Remberg

The company in three words:

Climate-conscious. Solution-focused. Supportive.

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Securing the future with a sustainability strategy

The climate crisis is no longer a matter for the future, but a reality of business management. Companies must not only become climate-friendly, but also climate-resilient. This is precisely where DSR & Partners – Climate Adaptation Advisors comes in.

Daniel Schmitz-Remberg, a UW/H graduate and expert in climate risks and adaptation, founded the strategy consultancy in 2023. Since then, the firm has been helping companies to identify and assess risks such as heat, water stress and supply chain disruptions at an early stage, and to translate these into manageable strategies and investment decisions.

DSR & Partners’ approach: making climate adaptation understandable, measurable and actionable. Using the specially developed CARMA Resilience Check, companies can quickly obtain an initial assessment of how well prepared they are for the consequences of climate change – and where there is an urgent need for action.

Building on this, DSR & Partners develops bespoke adaptation strategies, ranging from risk screening and cost-benefit analyses to implementation roadmaps. A key focus is on developing new metrics such as the ‘Return on Resilience Investment (RORI)’, which quantifies the financial benefits of prevention and resilience measures against climate-related damage.

Through practical tools, reference guides and formats such as the 21-Day Resilience Sprint or the Shift Climate Adaptation Roundtables, DSR & Partners raises awareness of climate risks throughout the value chain – and supports companies in taking responsibility, build resilience and safeguard their competitiveness.

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My advice for start-up founders:

“When you’re starting a business, there’s always headwinds – that’s part and parcel of breaking new ground and trying to forge viable paths. You feel this particularly keenly in climate adaptation, because so much still hinges on the hope of being able to halt climate change. (Sorry, that’s no longer going to work). I believe our real impact also lies in building resilience now – pragmatically, economically and collectively.”

Daniel Schmitz-Remberg
, founder of DSR & Partners – The Climate Advisors
, UW/H graduate
in Economics (2000–2005)

You can read more about Daniel’s journey from UW/H student to climate pioneer on our blog.