Why I Asked Ten Resilience Leaders to Write About El Niño Together

Cedrick Moriggi highlights the growing risks posed by the developing El Niño and the need for businesses to treat it as a strategic resilience issue rather than simply an operational risk. Drawing on insights from resilience leaders across major companies convened through the UNDRR Corporate Chief Resilience Officers Network, he argues that El Niño could generate interconnected impacts across food production, supply chains, transportation, communities, ecosystems, and corporate finances. Moriggi calls for organisations to identify their most weather-exposed sites and inputs, establish clear responsibility for managing these vulnerabilities, and prepare for how El Niño and other systemic risks may cascade through supply chains and communities.