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Transition Plan Taskforce’s mandate extended
via the Transition Plan Taskforce</font size> The Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) was announced at COP26 in Glasgow and launched in April 2022 with a two-year
Enabling Data-Driven Investment in Adaptation and Nature: Introducing the Resilient Planet Data Hub
Enter the Resilient Planet Data Hub. Launched at COP28, the Hub provides high quality, globally consistent, open climate and nature risk and resilience data, accessible to all. Discover the Hub’s work in this blog from the CGFI and ECI team.
Podcast: Geospatial Data, Climate Risk and Financial-Decisionmaking in Spatial Finance – Climind
Christophe Christiaen, Head of the Spatial Finance Initiative, discussed spatial finance with Climind’s “Talks at Climind” podcast.
CGFI at COP28
Experts from across the CGFI will be on the ground in Dubai throughout COP28.
CGFI supports Undaunted’s latest cohort of innovators
CGFI are supporting three startups in the new cohort of Undaunted’s Greenhouse programme, a 12-month accelerator supporting the growth of young, sustainable businesses on a mission to turn ideas into impact.
Breaking the ESG rating divergence: An open geospatial framework for environmental scores
This geospatial framework is the first for corporates and investors to assess the environmental impacts of a study area, and uses open access tools and data.
Earth Observation for Sustainable Finance
Satellite Applications Catapult & Space Hub Yorkshire held an event on monitoring sustainability targets with earth observation. Speakers include CGFI’s Christophe Christiaen (Head of the Spatial Finance Initiative).
EGU General Assembly 2024: Physical climate risk, sovereign credit ratings, and the benefits of adaptation
Mark Bernhofen presented research on Physical climate risk, sovereign credit ratings, and the benefits of adaptation at the General Assembly 2024 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), 17th April 2024.
4th June – CGFI Annual Forum 2024
The CGFI’s second Annual Forum on 12th June 2023 brought together expert speakers and delegats across policy, industry and research to focus on the role of data, analytics and innovation in advancing green finance in the UK and internationally.
8th May – How well do you understand the impact of climate change on risk management? Exploration and advancement of climate risk analytics for the building society sector
The CGFI Leeds Innovation Hub team are leading a session on climate and environmental risk analytics for finance, at the Building Society Association (BSA)’s Annual Conference on 8th May.
Collaborating for impact: bridging the gap between climate science and insurance industry practice
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.
Net Zero Transition Plans: Credibility and Action
Read the summary of this CGFI and the Transition Plan Taskforce event at the Leeds CGFI Innovation Hub to learn more about how transition plans can enable the journey to net zero and climate resilience.
An input–output sensitivity analysis of climate–economy integrated assessment models
This paper analyses the underlying interactions between input and output variables of three process–based climate–economy integrated assessment models according to a standardised sub- set of social and economic input variables, and how they contribute to variability in scenario outputs.
Synoptic conditions conducive for compound wind-flood events in Great Britain in present and future climates
Extreme wind is the main driver of loss in North-West Europe, with flooding being the second-highest driver. This study quantifies this using an established storm severity index (SSI) and recently developed flood severity index (FSI), applied to the UKCP18 12km regional climate simulations, and a Great Britain (GB) focused hydrological model.
Blog: Reckoning with a just coal transition
Team Reckon won the first edition of the Prize in 2023 and impressed the judges with their analytics solution for ‘Financing a Just Coal Transition’ which utilised climate, geospatial and economic data to understand physical and transition risks in India’s coal sector, with a specific focus on job losses. Our colleague Dr Yllka Hysaj asked them to share their journey from problem to Prize.
The Challenge of Climate Risk Modelling in Financial Institutions – Overview, Critique and Guidance
Chris Cormack and Gireesh Shrimali discusses the various general issues with climate risk modelling in financial institutions, including data availability and quality, model uncertainty, and integrating climate risks into risk management frameworks.
They highlight the quantitative model risk issues in some commonly used frameworks including the recent ECB modelling framework and publicly available models as well as an overview of useful features of academic models and commercial models.
Enabling Data-Driven Investment in Adaptation and Nature: Introducing the Resilient Planet Data Hub
Enter the Resilient Planet Data Hub. Launched at COP28, the Hub provides high quality, globally consistent, open climate and nature risk and resilience data, accessible to all. Discover the Hub’s work in this blog from the CGFI and ECI team.
Breaking the ESG rating divergence: An open geospatial framework for environmental scores
This geospatial framework is the first for corporates and investors to assess the environmental impacts of a study area, and uses open access tools and data.
