ClimaTech Project
The Business Case for Implementing Efficient Climate Risk-Reduction Strategies
Infrastructure is exposed to significant risks related to climate change, but existing tools are inadequate. Both transition and physical risks jeopardise the resilience and value of infrastructure assets. However, traditional analyses, with their broad or limited focus, fail to assess localised vulnerabilities and hinder the development of effective adaptation and mitigation strategies.
The ClimateTech Research Project seeks to achieve this by presenting a comprehensive matrix intended to offer stakeholders throughout the infrastructure value chain valuable insights into climate-related risks.
ClimaTech categorises infrastructure into 8 industrial superclasses and evaluates the effectiveness of transition and resilience plans for individual categories and 101 subclasses of infrastructure assets, in the following sectors: Conventional Power, Transport, Networked Utilities, Data, Environmental Services, Renewables, Social Infrastructures and Water Infrastructure.
ClimaTech also includes the ClimaTech database, which is a comprehensive tool that combines a structured classification of infrastructure assets with rigorous, evidence-based assessments. This database is to date the largest global repository of decarbonisation and resilience measures tailored for infrastructure. It includes a listing of the most effective strategies and technologies, accompanied by expert analysis and quantified indicators.
Executive Brief
The ClimaTech Project |
Assessing Infrastructure Decarbonisation and Resilience Strategies
The Business Case for Implementing Efficient Climate Risk-Reduction Strategies
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This paper presents a synthesis of the most material strategies to address physical and transition risks, based on findings from the ClimaTech 2050 Project—a multi-year research initiative led by EDHEC Climate Institute. The project identifies and evaluates over 100 decarbonisation and climate resilience strategies applicable across 101 infrastructure asset subclasses, resulting in more than 1,800 unique asset-strategy applications. Covering sectors such as energy, water, transport, waste, and social infrastructure, the work goes beyond strategy mapping to identify the specific technologies required for implementation at the asset level. Each strategy is assessed for effectiveness and hazard protection level (for physical risks). Drawing from a diverse and rigorous evidence base—combining engineering reviews, peer-reviewed science, industry insights and policy frameworks—the project equips stakeholders with decision-ready intelligence grounded in real-world feasibility.
By synthesising these insights, this paper offers a practical roadmap to help infrastructure owners and investors mitigate transition and physical risks—while aligning their portfolios with long-term climate objectives.
We present an assessment of key strategies to decarbonise non-renewable power assets and increase their resilience to physical climate risks, along with a review of the associated literature.
This paper identifies the key strategies or actions that environmental services infrastructure assets can take to decarbonise and build climate resilience. We give a high-level overview of influential approaches to achieve these aims that encompass a wide range of infrastructure assets.
This paper identifies the key strategies or actions that social infrastructure assets can take to decarbonise and build climate resilience. We give a high-level overview of influential approaches to achieve these aims that encompasses a wide range of infrastructure assets. Our “top-down” approach focuses on the general properties of assets in major infrastructure sectors and explores which strategies may be effective in multiple sectors.
We present an assessment of key strategies to decarbonise transport infrastructure assets and increase their resilience to physical climate risks, along with a review of the associated literature.
We use reported examples of energy and water resources to quantify the potential for transition risk mitigation strategies to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of assets and the potential of damage mitigation strategies against the physical risks of extreme weather from climate change.
This paper identifies the key strategies or actions that data infrastructure assets can take to decarbonise and build climate resilience. We give a high-level overview of influential approaches to achieve these aims that encompass a wide range of infrastructure assets.
We present an assessment of key strategies to decarbonise transport infrastructure assets and increase their resilience to physical climate risks, along with a review of the associated literature.
We present an assessment of key strategies to decarbonise renewable energy assets and increase their resilience to physical climate risks, along with a review of the associated literature.
We use reported examples of renewable energy to quantify the potential for transition risk mitigation strategies to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of assets and the potential of damage mitigation strategies against the physical risks of extreme weather from climate change.
We present an assessment of key strategies to decarbonise networked utility assets and increase their resilience to physical climate risks, along with a review of the associated literature.
Database - coming soon
We are re developing a comprehensive database to help you explore how infrastructure assets can meaningfully decarbonise and adapt to climate risks.
Want to learn more or be the first to know when we launch? Contact us at [email protected] or stay tuned for updates.
