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The potential for transferring and translating existing adaptation to climate change decision-support tools for use in different settings provides both opportunities and challenges to those wanting to support such decisions in or for the targeted community/organisation. The opportunities are related to being able to build on an existing credible and tested tool and its supportive resources and foregoing the costs associated with developing such themselves. The challenges relate to taking advantages of the strengths of an existing tool whilst adapting it and its supportive resources such that they are fit for purpose and accepted within the targeted community/organisation. This paper identifies and explores these opportunities and challenges through those revealed as a result of transferring and translating the UKCIPAdaptation Wizard for use within other parts of the world and in different communities and organisations. Whilst drawing on a number of different examples of wheretheWizardhasbeen translated,thispaperparticularly focuses on the transfer and translation for use in Portugal and in Brazil. General lessons learnt related to transferring adaptation decisionsupport tools are identified and used to develop a practical framework. The intention is to provide insights that have broader implications for those considering transferring similar adaptation decisionsupport tools, but also for tool developers who want to see their tools being used more broadly.

RESUMO O enfrentamento da crise da Covid-19 ressaltou a importância do olhar crítico e sistêmico para a atuação empresarial para sustentabilidade. Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir a sustentabilidade, através das lentes teóricas de sustentabilidade “forte” e “fraca” e suas relações com os paradigmas econômicos; apresentar a teoria da resiliência como alternativa frente aos atuais desafios; e analisar, com base nos conceitos apresentados, indícios de como as organizações estão reagindo inicialmente, em suas atuações com sustentabilidade, à crise da Covid-19. Para tanto, foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com empresas que atuam no Brasil. Como resultado, indícios de realinhamento ao propósito inicial da empresa de criar valor para a sociedade coexistem com indícios de continuidade da aposta em soluções via mercado e da busca por crescimento infinito em um planeta com recursos limitados.

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