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RESEARCH PAPERS
Where Climate Transition Risk Metrics Converge — and Why They Diverge
Climate transition risk metrics from different providers can look wildly different for the same firm — but Bingler, Colesanti Senni, and Monnin's peer-reviewed research finds a more nuanced picture: metrics converge notably more for firms that are clearly most or least exposed, and cluster by underlying methodology.
INDUSTRY REPORTS
Climate Risk Companies Don't Always Agree: CarbonPlan's Vendor Comparison
CarbonPlan asked nine climate risk analytics companies for the same fire and flood risk data on 342 real addresses. Seven declined or didn't respond. The two that participated agreed only weakly on which properties were most at risk — and CarbonPlan argues that industry non-participation is itself the finding.
OPINION
Climate Risk Data Quality Is a Market Problem, Not Just a Methods Problem
Public climate data is abundant but coarse. Asset-level risk analysis needs resolution public data can't provide, so a private, well-funded market has emerged to close that gap with proprietary, often AI-driven methods. We think that market's structure — who can afford fine-grained data, and who can't — is itself a climate justice problem, made worse when the data isn't even reliably accurate.
INDUSTRY REPORTS
A Risk Professional's Guide to Physical Risk Assessments: The GARP 13-Vendor Benchmark
GARP tested 13 physical climate risk vendors against the same 100 properties worldwide. The correlation between vendors' flood damage-ratio estimates ranged from 0.2 to 0.9, one vendor geocoded a Boston property 1,507 km away in Atlanta, and dispersion behaves in opposite directions depending on which statistic you use to measure it.
INDUSTRY REPORTS
The 2023 Climate Risk Landscape: UNEP FI's Multi-Vendor Technical Supplement
UNEP FI, backed by 44 banks and investors, ran an identical dummy portfolio past 15 climate risk vendors. The same portfolio scored 76.9, 63, and 53.4 out of 100 for physical risk from three different vendors — and physical Value-at-Risk estimates ranged from 0.6% to over 21%.
INDUSTRY REPORTS
Reading a Vendor-Hosted Analyst Report: Verdantix's Green Quadrant on MSCI
MSCI's website hosts a PDF of Verdantix's Green Quadrant report on climate financial data and analytics providers — but the version MSCI distributes contains only MSCI's own vendor profile, not the other nine providers assessed. Useful for its evaluation criteria, not for independent comparison.
INDUSTRY REPORTS
Why Climate Risk Vendors Disagree — and What That Means for Data Quality
Seven climate risk vendors assessed the same dummy portfolio and the same flood-prone stretch of road outside Paris — and disagreed almost completely. A detailed Investor Leadership Network study, alongside a 13-vendor GARP benchmark, traces that disagreement to specific, nameable methodological choices, not just irreducible uncertainty.
PROJECTS
The Adaptation Exchange: Building a Climate-Resilient Economy Together
As a founding partner of the Adaptation Exchange, Climate+Tech brings scientific rigour and solution discovery to a cross-sector platform that translates climate risk awareness into coordinated resilience investment—connecting corporates, insurers, finance, and solution providers.
PROJECTS
Climate Risk Intel: Democratizing Open Climate Risk Data
Use the live Tool Hub to discover open climate risk tools and datasets—plus pathways to collaborate with our team.
TOOLS
Climate Risk Management: Open Data Tools & Services from UNEP, NASA, ESA, Copernicus, and IPCC
Explore open data for climate risk management with tools and services from UNEP, NASA, ESA, Copernicus, and IPCC. Learn how open data empowers climate risk assessment and adaptation.
TOOLS
Climate TRACE: Open Data for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Transition Risk
Open data for tracking global greenhouse gas emissions and transition risk.