as such action that is in effect adaptation may not be viewed as such by the company in question this paper has adopted a broad perspective in that it includes as adaptation measures that have been taken in relation to existing climate extremes which additionally improve companies resilience to climate change and measures that have either been identified by the respondents as relating to climate change or to circumstances that have been made worse by climate change information on companies adaptation experiences has been obtained by directly contacting companies see annex for a full list of companies based on companies responses to the cdp questionnaire companies which were particularly active on climate issues were identified and requested to participate in this analysis