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Communicating with Customers on Physical Climate Risk: Barriers, Motivations and Opportunities for Action
At this year’s Building Societies Association (BSA) Annual Conference in Birmingham, the UK CGFI Leeds Innovation Hub, in collaboration with BSA, hosted a breakout session, ‘Communicating with customer on climate risk: barriers, motivations and opportunities for action’. This session aimed to explore how the sector can better support customers in understanding and responding to the increased risks of extreme weather events, such as flooding and overheating, resulting from the changing physical climate.
Carney’s Risk Warning Reverberates as Global Regulators Disagree Over Climate – Matt Scott comments
Matt Scott, CGFI Executive Director commented to Bloomberg’s Green Daily Newsletter by Alistair Marsh, discussing firms’ contribution to the transition, in the context of current FSB discussions.
Climate Investment Challenge 2025 Finale
CIC finalists pitched their innovative solutions in the CIC finale, with awards including the Data Analytics Prize for solutions applying data and analytics to climate/financial challenges.
CGFI Hackathon 2025 – Global characteristics of tropical cyclones: tropical risk analytics for the reinsurance industry – key takeaways
Our 2025 Hackathon brings together researchers and practitioners to investigate questions related to climate model data, and especially tropical cyclones, of relevance for the reinsurance industry (companies who insure insurers).
CGFI Hackathon winners announced!
We’re thrilled to announce the winning teams from the CGFI Hackathon 2025, held on 10–11 June at the Leeds Innovation Hub. Two teams were presented with
Who pays? Money, power and risk in sustainable finance
Read here The March 2025 issue of environmental SCIENTIST – the journal of the Institution of Environmental Sciences –considers how we can harness finance to
21st October – Trustworthy climate information for effective physical climate risk assessment (Climateurope2)
Climateurope2, UCL, and the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment will host a re/insurance and finance sector-focussed event on 21 and 22 October 2025, bringing together key players in the climate services market, to address central issues around quality, trustworthiness and regulation of climate services for re/insurance and finance.
CGFI at Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit
16-17th July 2025 | University of Oxford More information UK CGFI researchers shaped discussions in several sessions at Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit 2025, which took
Climate Investment Challenge 2025 Finale
CIC finalists pitched their innovative solutions in the CIC finale, with awards including the Data Analytics Prize for solutions applying data and analytics to climate/financial challenges.
CGFI Hackathon 2025 – Global characteristics of tropical cyclones: tropical risk analytics for the reinsurance industry – key takeaways
Our 2025 Hackathon brings together researchers and practitioners to investigate questions related to climate model data, and especially tropical cyclones, of relevance for the reinsurance industry (companies who insure insurers).
From research to application in the insurance industry – workshop findings
The UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI) convened a workshop in Leeds to explore how climate science can better inform decision-making in the insurance industry – read key takeaways
Webinar – Practitioners’ Insights: Climate Transition: Risks and Opportunities
This CFA Institute webinar with CGFI’s Head of Transition Finance Research, Dr Gireesh Shrimali, provides an overview of the climate transition and highlights these principles in the investment process.
Who pays? Money, power and risk in sustainable finance
Read here The March 2025 issue of environmental SCIENTIST – the journal of the Institution of Environmental Sciences –considers how we can harness finance to
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.
