Webinar – What Really Works for Infrastructure Resilience and Decarbonisation? 

Inside ClimaTech’s Global Framework of Climate Solutions

From Data to Decisions: Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

Up to 54% of global infrastructure value is at risk from climate-induced weather events without adaptation. Already, USD 10 billion in assets face devaluation risk due to non-alignment with sustainability criteria, and another USD 245 billion is exposed to regulatory uncertainty. Yet fewer than one-third of major infrastructure companies disclose credible transition or resilience strategies.

Infrastructure investors and operators are under increasing pressure to identify credible, science-based pathways for decarbonisation and climate resilience. Yet most available information remains fragmented across technical reports, academic literature, and regulatory documents, leaving decision-makers without a single, comparable framework for action.

The ClimaTech project bridges this gap. Backed by two years of research and eight peer-reviewed papers, ClimaTech provides the first and world's largest systematic, evidence-based repository of strategies to reduce both transition and physical climate risks to infrastructure assets. It consolidates complex, cross-disciplinary research into a single, accessible platform that combines engineering, financial, and regulatory perspectives.

This webinar introduces the ClimaTech project and demonstrates how it can be used by asset owners, investors, governments, and international organisations, to push the frontiers of sustainable infrastructure development and investment.

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The webinar will cover the following topics:

1. Introducing ClimaTech:  Bridging the Evidence Gap

The webinar begins by addressing why the market urgently needed a systematic, comparable, and science-based framework to identify strategies that effectively reduce climate-related transition and physical risks for infrastructure assets. ClimaTech was created to meet this need, bringing together fragmented data from across technical, financial, and regulatory domains into a single, coherent framework.

2. Inside ClimaTech: What It Is and How It Works

ClimaTech consolidates over two years of research into a comprehensive database of climate transition and physical risk reduction strategies. Each strategy is assessed for effectiveness, key enabling technologies, and relevance across infrastructure asset classes, integrating insights from engineering, finance, and sustainability experts. The tool has been peer-reviewed by cross-industry stakeholders to ensure robustness and practical usability.

3. The Reach and Diversity of ClimaTech

Explore how ClimaTech serves a wide range of users — from academia, which can leverage its dataset for sustainability research, to governments and investors, who can use it to identify sector-specific risks and adaptation pathways. Sector examples, such as data centres, illustrate which strategies work best and where gaps remain.

4. Aligning ClimaTech with Regulation and Investment Priorities

Learn how ClimaTech maps its findings to the EU Taxonomy, offering a unique view of which strategies and asset types align — or do not align — with current sustainable finance definitions. This session will discuss what regulators and markets consider credible, and how such insights can guide investment focus toward sustainable infrastructure.

5. Real-World Applications — What ClimaTech Reveals in Practice

Through a portfolio case study, we demonstrate how ClimaTech can assess the key physical and transition risks faced by infrastructure assets globally, and how targeted strategies can reduce those risks across multiple categories, from decarbonisation to floods, storms, extreme heat, and wildfires.

6. Research Outputs and the Road Ahead

The session concludes with a presentation of ClimaTech’s current outputs — including its peer-reviewed papers and prototype database dashboard — and a look ahead at future developments, such as the addition of new sectors and expansion of cost data to support practical decision-making.

Speakers:   Nishtha Manocha, Ph.D. Project Lead, ClimaTech, EDHEC Climate Institute     Conor Hubert, Sustainability Research Engineer, EDHEC Climate Institute

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For any additional information, please contact Maud Gauchon on +33 493 187 887 or at [email protected].