Small Business Climate Map Founder
and Chief Toolmaker
Small Business Climate Map is a suite of tools that help a small business understand how climate change could affect its viability. What the risks are. Where the opportunities to grow could be. How to calculate emissions. Ways to reduce them. Whether green claims could be breaching guidelines. How exposed the business is to losing a key supplier or customer. Proven solutions from small businesses around the world who've already faced and solved the same challenges.
Most people think of climate change as the weather, and the impacts are years away, but it also covers the way customer expectations are shifting and the new rules being introduced to manage it. Each one brings both risks and opportunities for a small business.
The Small Business Climate Map identifies those risks and opportunities through analysing public data across weather and climate science, hazards and flooding, emissions and carbon, climate finance, laws and policies, trade and supply chains, UK business and demographic data, economic and country indicators, and other specialist data, turning it into straight forward information relevant for your small business.
The tools included in the Small Business Climate Map are framed from the requirements laid out in sustainability reporting standards being rolled out globally to show how climate change could affect your business, your suppliers, your customers and how what can impact them could have an impact on you.
The sustainability reporting standards were created so businesses had a framework to base their reporting on so there was consistency within industries, and whilst designed for enterprise, they are useful for small businesses too. They are the foundations that have shaped what each tool asks, what data it pulls in, and the way it presents the answer.
For years I have been documenting operational change for enterprise-wide transformations, turning hard, messy change into something people could actually follow.
In 2025, a friend asked me if I could build something to help his company's small suppliers with calculating their emissions as his company needed that information to set their own emissions targets. They worked at a multinational that had to start publishing climate-related information alongside its annual report, and without that supplier data they couldn't complete the picture, and were facing a serious fine.
Fewer than 30% of their small suppliers were responding, and the ones who did push back said the questionnaires were too long, too technical, and not worth the contract.
I began researching what large businesses were being asked to provide by the sustainability reporting standards, and found that, whilst designed with large businesses in mind, through the supply chain, they would be applicable to small businesses too. This had impacted what resources were available to businesses. Almost everything I could find was there for enterprise, and what existed for small business didn't meet the needs of the very small businesses. With 97% of all businesses being very small, this was a huge gap.
The numbers back this up. When the Federation of Small Businesses and Zurich asked 953 small businesses in 2025 how ready they felt to start, only 13% said they had the money for it, 18% had the skills, and 26% had the knowledge. The SME Climate Hub heard the same: two-thirds of small business owners said they were worried about navigating any of this, and listed not enough skills (63%), not enough money (48%) and not enough time (40%) as the top reasons they were holding back.
As a small business owner, I could see the impact these changes would mean and the lack of resources out there, so I started building.
The Small Business Climate Map tools use artificial intelligence and publicly available data to show how climate change could affect a business.
The results are for information and educational purposes only. They do not constitute advice of any kind including and not limited to financial, legal, investment, or compliance advice. AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies.
These tools are provided without liability. You are responsible for verifying any information before acting on it.
Get in touch via: helpfulperson@smallbusinessclimatemap.com.
Small Business Climate Map is built and operated by Ransome-Wallis Pty Ltd (ABN 49 630 459 068), registered at 2/290 Boundary Street, Spring Hill, QLD, 4000, Australia.