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UK CGFI Leeds Innovation Hub Celebrates Climate Research Impact in the finance Industry – one year on and beyond
As the CGFI Leeds Innovation Hub has passed its one year anniversary, the team reflect on the journey, progress, and impact to date.
Blog: Green and nature fintech – takeaways from our expert panels
Our nature fintech webinars explored the state and future of nature and green fintech in the UK with experts from venture capital, data and analytics startups, financial institutions and academia. Watch the webinars here and read insights below.
Blog: 3 takeaways for researchers from a year at a pension fund
Read insights on responsible investment and how research can effectively engage and contribute in industry, as CGFI Head of Innovation and Impact Christophe Christiaen reflects on his secondment to pensions provider Nest.
UK CGFI Internship Programme: Bridging Climate Science and Finance to Tackle Industry Challenges
For our first internship, we have partnered with flood risk consultancy and modelling company JBA Risk Management for an internship looking at how we can calculate present day flood risk, and investigate new approaches using observations and modelling.
TPT concludes after completing groundbreaking work on Transition Plans
The Transition Plan Taskforce, for which CGFI is co-secretariat, has concluded its groundbreaking work and released its final report
Spatial Finance Initiative releases global asset-level datasets for two sectors
The Spatial Finance Initiative has released newly-updated asset-level databases for additional high-impact sectors, as part of our GeoAsset project.
10-11 June – CGFI Hackathon 2025 – Global characteristics of tropical cyclones: tropical risk analytics for the reinsurance industry
10-11 June 2025 | Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK Details and applications Our 2025 Hackathon brings together researchers and practitioners to investigate questions related to climate
25-26 March – Workshop: from research to application in the insurance industry
Join leading researchers, mortgage providers and data and analytics businesses at the CGFI Leeds Innovation Hub to network and share challenges and opportunities around climate data and analytics.
24 March – Climate Transition Plans Summit
The 3rd Annual Climate Transition Plans Summit, organised by City & Financial Global, will take place in London on 24 March 2025. CGFI Executive Director Matt Scott will be speaking on best practice approaches to drafting transition plans.
Webinar: Research Theme Update for the Insurance Sector
Join leading researchers, mortgage providers and data and analytics businesses at the CGFI Leeds Innovation Hub to network and share challenges and opportunities around climate data and analytics.
Webinar: Connecting finance with the real economy: asset-level data for the construction minerals sectors
On 21st January 2025, the Spatial Finance Initiative team will be delivering a presentation on “Connecting Finance with the real economy: Asset-level data for the construction minerals sectors.”
December 2024 webinars – Green Fintech Trends and Opportunities
This two-part webinar series, by the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI), Nature Tech Collective (NTC) and Innovate UK Business Connect, will explore opportunities for green fintech innovation to accelerate action. We will discuss key outcomes and takeaways from both COP processes, explore trends in green fintech and learn from leading companies in the field.
Paper: Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis (2025)
In this paper, We review different sources of asset location data, analyse their availability per industry and provide recommendations to reduce the location data barrier and address the ‘lack of data’ excuse to delay nature action.
Climate Transition Plans’ Assessment in Hard-to-Abate Sectors: Evidence from Airlines
As industries navigate the transition to net-zero emissions, aviation faces unique challenges balancing growth with decarbonisation. This study from our Net Zero Transition Plans work introduces a correlation-based scoring framework to evaluate airline transition plans using data from 84 airlines, representing 75% of industry emissions.
Assessing Corporate Emissions Reduction Targets Against National Transition Plans
Corporate emissions reduction targets often fail to account for regional differences in transition plans. This paper provides an approach for assessing targets against sectoral national transition plans, and applies this method to a sample of 9 electric utility companies
Impact of climate scenario choices on climate financial risk assessment: High variance company performance under consistent climate stress test
Using a consistent climate stress test applied across eleven different climate scenarios under two different temperature targets and policy ambitions for a global set of power companies, this paper finds significant variation in the impact that each scenario has on the assessment of company valuation, and in the probability of default.
Assessing Corporate Transition Plans using a Production Asset-Based Planning Approach
As industries navigate the transition to net-zero emissions, aviation faces unique challenges balancing growth with decarbonisation. This study from our Net Zero Transition Plans work introduces a correlation-based scoring framework to evaluate airline transition plans using data from 84 airlines, representing 75% of industry emissions.
Report: Location, Location, Location: Asset Location Data Sources for Nature-Related Financial Risk Analysis
This report provides an overview of different sources of asset location data with examples across sectors and geographies. We assess data availability for sectors with material nature risks. The report also comes with an inventory of asset location databases which we aim to update over time.
