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Scientific Climate Ratings: A New Standard in Climate Risk Assessment

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Scientific Climate Ratings (SCR) is a new venture born from EDHEC’s Climate Finance applied research ecosystem. It delivers forward-looking ratings that quantify the financial materiality of climate risks for infrastructure companies and investors worldwide. Leveraging high-resolution geospatial data, proprietary climate risk models, and the world’s largest financial dataset for infrastructure assets, SCR evaluates both Transition Risks (linked to the shift toward a low-carbon economy) and Physical Risks (arising from climate hazards such as floods, storms, heatwaves, and wildfires).​ ​
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Scientific Climate Ratings (SCR) is a new venture born from EDHEC’s Climate Finance applied research ecosystem. It delivers forward-looking ratings that quantify the financial materiality of climate risks for infrastructure companies and investors worldwide. Leveraging high-resolution geospatial data, proprietary climate risk models, and the world’s largest financial dataset for infrastructure assets, SCR evaluates both Transition Risks (linked to the shift toward a low-carbon economy) and Physical Risks (arising from climate hazards such as floods, storms, heatwaves, and wildfires).​ ​ 

The ratings offer a dual perspective: 

  • Potential Climate Exposure Ratings assess current exposure to future climate risks under a “continuity” scenario, reflecting the most likely pathway based on today’s global policies and trends.​
  • Effective Climate Risk Ratings go further by integrating climate risk data into financial valuation models across multiple scenarios — each weighted by its probability of occurrence — to estimate the financial effects of climate-related risks through 2035 and 2050.​ 

While initially focused on infrastructure, SCR will soon extend its methodology to the listed equities segment, applying the same scientific rigor and forward-looking approach to a broader set of financial assets.​ Scientific Climate Ratings aims to set a new standard in climate risk management — driving informed and responsible decision-making for a more resilient future.