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Climate change is a healthcare story. Here's the plain-English version.

This is the reference library behind our advisory work, a running, free collection of terms, frameworks, regulations and tools built for the people who have to act on climate risk without a climate science background. No sign-up. No paywall. Sourced, dated, and corrected when it's wrong.

Nine Sections, Growing Every Month

What's in the guide

Everything here answers one question a real person asked us on a call, a workshop, or a proposal. We build it once, in public, so the next person doesn't have to ask.

01 · Live

The Glossary

Plain-English definitions for every term you'll hit in a sustainability report, a CSR meeting, or a climate risk conversation, no jargon left unexplained.

A–ZSchema-marked
02 · Live

Regulations & Standards Library

BRSR, GRI, TCFD, ESRS, SDGs and India-specific rules, decoded and compared, what each one actually requires, and who has to file it.

IndiaGlobal
03 · Live

Role-Based Guides

What climate risk means for your specific seat, CSR head, sustainability lead, HR/duty-of-care owner, or CFO signing off the budget.

By role
04 · Live

Templates & Tools

Trackers, checklists and self-assessments you can download and use today. No email gate. Built from the same rigour we use with paying clients.

Free download
05 · In progress

Business Decision Guides

Structured "should we / how do we" answers to the calls that come up most: budgeting a CSR programme, choosing a reporting framework, briefing a board on climate exposure.

Decision trees
06 · In progress

Sector Playbooks

Pharma, FMCG, manufacturing, IT, financial services, cement and metals, telecom, retail, what climate-health exposure looks like in each, and where CSR budgets already point.

By sector
07 · In progress

Climate-Health & Equity Library

The evidence base connecting climate change to health outcomes, heat, air quality, food security, access disruption, with sources you can cite in your own reporting.

Evidence-based
08 · In progress

India Policy & Deadline Tracker

Filing windows, notification updates, and state-level heat action plans, the calendar version of the moving budgets we build our whole approach around.

IndiaDated
09 · Planned

Reading List & Tool Directory

Reports, courses and external tools worth your time, with a one-line verdict on each rather than a link dump.

Curated
Why This Exists

We're not trying to keep this to ourselves

The scoring methods and diagnostic frameworks we use with clients stay ours. The context underneath them doesn't need to. If a plain definition of BRSR assurance requirements helps you make a better decision this week, that's a good use of an afternoon, whether or not you ever become a client.

Climate change didn't wait for a budget line to open. Neither should the information.
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Glossary · Updated this week

BRSR Assurance

What "reasonable" vs "limited" assurance actually means for your Section 135 filing.

Template · New

Climate-Health Materiality Tracker

A working spreadsheet structure for scoring which climate risks matter most to your operations.

Role Guide · New

The CSR Manager's Guide to Climate-Health Spend

Where climate-health fits inside a Section 135 budget, and how to defend the line item.

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Free self-assessment · under three minutes

Reading the standard is step one. Knowing your own exposure is step two.

CAVS-S turns the reporting question into your own numbers: a directional read on where climate is already reaching your physical reach, supply-chain integrity, workforce availability and demand continuity. Free, under three minutes, and the result names the data gaps your answers exposed.

Peer-benchmarked against FY2024-25 BRSR disclosures from 59 listed Indian companies.