1. CORPORATE ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE A WEB-BASED SUBSCRIBER RESOURCE & REPORT SERVICE O SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW O KNOWLEDGE-BASED EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT O PROJECTIONS SERVICE © ETHICSCAN: NOT FOR REPRODUCTION WITHOUT PERMISSION 1.1

2. BUSINESS MODEL Subscription service Web-based Member service EthicScan quality assurance Empower decision-making through spreading technically sound, non- political, information Enhance university-based scientists’ role as providers for services 1.2

3. SERVICE PLATFORM LOGIC 1.3

4. LITERATURE REVIEW (1) Access, summarize and assess ongoing literature by type of source, models used, activity sector, and geography On-line summary and evaluation Distinguish mitigation from adaptation Promote climate change adaptation literacy At a click, direct access to full report 2.1

5. LITERATURE REVIEW (2) REFERENCE  Number Pages  Country/Region  Activity Sector(s)  Source Type (1-8)  Risk Model  Decision-Making Model  Scenario Decades CONTENT ANALYSIS  Explanation assumptions  Quality science  Accessibility language  One hundred word summary  Tier 1, 2, 3 Journal  HARM Triangle 2.2

6. LITERATURE REVIEW (3)  Adaptation literature in English  Not take a position on science or politics involved  Transparent, accountable and unbiased  Rigorous user-perspective assessment of content and quality of literature, with possibility of click through, direct access 2.3

7. KNOWLEDGE-BASED EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT (1)  Seminars on Emerging Scientific Literature  Knowledge-Based Forums  Referral and Customized Literature Searches  Assess Significance of Forecast Assumptions  Co-funding of Prospective Customized Forecast Engagements  Reviewer and Speaker Registry 3.1

8. KNOWLEDGE-BASED EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT (2)  Questions We Can Answer Corporate Reporting Consensus Who Is Saying They are Doing What, Where and When Literature Consensus Literature Gaps  Questions We Cannot Answer Right Choices in Hindsight Best Practices 3.2

9. PROJECTIONS SERVICE (1)  Enhance sustainable funding and new commissioned work from businesses for existing climate science-based centres  Foster direct dialogue between business client users and scenario or projections service providers  Collaboration, not competition, among respected information providers  Knowledge transfer that empowers scientists and informs business subscriber-customized assumptions 4.1

10. PROJECTIONS SERVICE (2)  Access regional/country climate change projections, scenarios and/or forecasts by geography, decade, assumptions, HARM triangle assessment, and high/medium/low impacts  Long range: 10, 50, 100 years  User-specified regions  Subscriber-customized assumptions 4.2

11. PROJECTIONS SERVICE (3)  OURANOS Consortium (UQAM, Hydro Quebec) climate modelling  Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (U Vic, BC Hydro, BC govt) climate modelling  PCIC, PICS, CCCma  Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (U Regina) drought, water availability  NES, GCSI: Ottawa  Fisheries & Oceans THESE NAMES ARE DISCUSSION STAGE AND EXPLORATORY ONLY 4.3

12. PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS: U.S.  United Nations, Caring For Climate Program  Dalberg Associates  Pew Centre  Adaptability: the Climate Adaptation Network (Facebook)  Association of Climate Change Officers THESE SUGGESTED NAMES ARE NEITHER COMMITTED NOR FOR ATTRIBUTION 5.2

13. PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS: CANADA  Canadian Business for Social Responsibility  Conference Board of Canada  International Institute for Sustainable Development  National Roundtable for the Environment and Economy THESE SUGGESTED NAMES ARE NEITHER COMMITTED NOR FOR ATTRIBUTION 5.3

14. PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS: UK  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change  Acclimatise  Serco Science & Technology THESE SUGGESTED NAMES ARE NEITHER COMMITTED NOR FOR ATTRIBUTION 5.4

15. HIERARCHY OF STANDARDS 6.1 DO GOOD DO NO HARM MINIMIZE HARM

16. SERVICE FEES: 1. LITERATURE REVIEW STREAM  CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION LITERACY  ACCESS CITATIONS & EVALUATIONS  DOWNLOAD ENTIRE ARTICLE, BOOK  OPERATE USER DEFINED SEARCHES 8.13

17. SERVICE FEES: 2. EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT  OVERVIEW OF RECENT REPORTS & FINDINGS  RISK & REPUTATION ANALYSIS  SECTORAL STUDIES & DIALOGUE  SPREAD TECHNICALLY-SOUND INFORMATION 8.14

18. SERVICE FEES: 3. PROJECTIONS STREAM  SCENARIO PROFESSIONALS REGISTRY  DIRECT ENGAGEMENT & REFERRAL  CLIMATE SCIENCE-BASED SEMINARS  CO-FUNDED RESEARCH CONTRACTS 8.15