{"id":677125,"date":"2026-01-06T06:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677125\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:43:13","slug":"rising-costs-climate-risks-leave-uk-smes-exposed-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677125\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising costs, climate risks leave UK SMEs exposed &#8211; reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Climate threat facing businesses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A separate analysis by Vail Williams shows\u00a0that three in four UK businesses (74%) have not assessed the risks posed by climate change to their operations. Even among businesses that have reviewed climate-related risks, few have taken action, with\u00a0only 15% addressing\u00a0supply chain disruption, 9% mitigating\u00a0temperature increases, and 6% acting\u00a0on flood risk. This leaves many firms exposed to increasingly frequent extreme weather events, including storms, flooding, and heat-related disruptions, which already affect infrastructure, employee availability, and supply chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Climate threat facing businesses A separate analysis by Vail Williams shows\u00a0that three in four UK businesses (74%) have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,205720,712,68404,16,15,205721,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-677125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-premium-credit","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-sme","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-vail-williams","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115846801255086586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}