Guide to Climate Risks and Adaptations for the Scottish Food and Drink Wholesale Industry

6th November 2025

A free, downloadable PDF guide helps food and drink wholesale businesses in Scotland understand climate risks and take practical steps to build their resilience.

The guide offers industry-focused advice on how to prepare for rising temperatures, increased rainfall and flooding, extreme temperatures, supply chain risk and more.

What does this involve?
This free, downloadable guide helps food and drink wholesale businesses in Scotland to understand climate risks and take practical steps to build their resilience.

The guide can help you:

understand climate risks that could affect your business, such as rising temperatures, increased rainfall and flooding, extreme temperatures, and supply chain risk
take practical steps to protect your people, premises, products, processes and places
identify opportunities for growth through innovation, diversification and sustainable practices
access additional tools, including the SME Resilience Checklist
The guide includes case studies from wholesale businesses and information on economic opportunities and other resources that you can use to prepare for the impact of climate change.

The guide was developed for the food and drink wholesale sector in Scotland but may also be useful for other supply chain and logistics businesses in any region.

It is available to download as a PDF document HERE
16 Pages

The guide was developed by the Adaptation Scotland programme, which helps businesses prepare for and adapt to climate change. It is funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by the climate resilience charity Verture.