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Climate Risk Is Operational Risk: Aligning to CROMP and ESG Standards
Across government, infrastructure and the private sector, organisations are under growing pressure to manage and disclose climate risk. The Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program (CROMP), introduced by the Australian Government, sets a new benchmark for climate-related risk governance—offering a structured approach to identifying, assessing and responding to both physical and transition climate risks.
While CROMP is currently mandatory for federal departments, its principles are rapidly becoming a de facto standard for public and private organisations looking to strengthen their ESG posture.
The shift is clear: climate risk is no longer a sustainability issue—it’s an operational and governance imperative
Organisations are expected to demonstrate:
- Clear governance structures for managing climate-related risks and opportunities
- Integration of climate impacts into risk frameworks, impact assessments, and controls
- Defined reporting processes aligned with evolving disclosure standards (e.g. TCFD, ISSB, Treasury reforms)
- Evidence of action—not just policy—to address risk across supply chains, assets, people and operations
CROMP provides a publicly available framework to structure this effort. Whether you’re a government agency, GBE, critical infrastructure operator or private enterprise, aligning to CROMP now enables a future-ready approach to climate resilience and ESG maturity.
Where Battleground fits in
We partner with organisations to embed climate risk capability into core operations—making resilience measurable, reportable and integrated. Our approach combines advisory and platform delivery:
- CROMP alignment assessments mapped to ESG risk maturity and disclosure readiness
- Deployment of Battleground Live, our resilience platform, to enable:
- Climate-tagged risk registers
- Process and system exposure modelling
- Scenario-based disruption planning
- Integrated controls and assurance workflows
- Executive-level engagement and training to uplift governance
- Real-time reporting to evidence progress and support internal and external accountability
Our clients use Battleground Live to operationalise resilience—not just document it.
As expectations around ESG reporting evolve, organisations that treat climate risk as a compliance exercise will fall behind. Those that build structured, forward-looking capability—aligned to CROMP and global standards—will lead.
Battleground is ready to support that shift.
If you’re preparing for disclosure, ESG uplift, or climate-related governance reform, we can help you get there faster—with risk and resilience built-in
