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(Part 3) 100th Episode Special: Is Finance Ready for the Risks Ahead?
September 17, 2026
Part three of this three-part special asks what seven years of climate risk have taught finance, where the sector’s limits lie, and why there are ...
(Part Two) 100th Episode Special: We Know the Risks. So Why Aren’t We Moving Fas
September 10, 2026
Part two of this three-part special looks back at seven years of climate policy to ask what has worked, what has fallen short, and whether the ...
(Part One) 100th Episode Special: Seven Years of Climate Risk — What Have We Lea
September 3, 2026
Part one of this three-part special looks back at the seven years of the podcast to ask what we have learnt about the science, what surprised us, and ...
El Niño Explained: Understanding a Global Climate Risk Driver
September 3, 2026
What is El Niño and how is it connected to climate change?
Fire and Flood: Lessons from Britain’s New World of Extremes
July 9, 2026
Hear from celebrated journalist David Shukman on why climate change is no longer a future risk, how extreme weather is exposing weaknesses in the ...
Why Vendors Disagree: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Physical Climate Risk Data
June 30, 2026
Physical climate risk assessments of the same asset can vary significantly across vendors. A new study explores the reasons for those differences.
The Case for Adaptation: Heat Stress and the Built Environment
April 16, 2026
Hear from Richard Flemmings, founder and CEO of Map Impact, as we explore why “dry perils” such as heat, drought and wildfire are emerging as ...
The Complexity Cascade: Why Physical Risk Models Diverge — and What Governance Needs to Do About It
February 19, 2026
Physical climate risk vendors often provide very different assessments for the same assets. This article explains the sources of these differences ...
What We Learned About Climate and Nature Risk in 2025
January 22, 2026
Hear from Jo Paisley and Maxine Nelson of the GARP Risk Institute as they look back on key learnings from the past year of the Climate Risk Podcast. ...
When Risk Models Fail the Vulnerable: A Case for Climate-Responsive Finance
November 27, 2025
To safeguard not just our cities and countryside from the effects of climate change, but also our financial systems, financing approaches must change ...
Comparing Climate Risk Vendors: A User’s Guide to Physical Risk Assessments
October 23, 2025
As climate risks intensify, financial institutions face mounting pressure to understand their exposure to physical hazards. Yet even leading vendors ...
A Risk Professional’s Guide to Physical Risk Assessments
October 23, 2025
Climate change is driving an increase in the frequency and severity of physical risk events, such as floods, storms, and heatwaves. Yet quantifying ...
How Oceans Are Transformed by Climate Change
October 9, 2025
Climate change is rewriting the rules of the ocean. Rising sea levels, increasing acidity, and intensifying stratification are disrupting ecosystems, ...
Gold is a Key Central Bank Reserve Asset: How Is Climate Change Affecting It?
September 25, 2025
Negative social and economic consequences of climate change may increase the demand for safe-haven assets, such as gold. As it plays a fundamental ...
Could the Law Finally Be Catching up With Climate Culprits?
September 18, 2025
Recent advances in climate legislation and litigation may significantly raise the materiality of legal risk for fossil fuel companies and other large ...
The Missing Climate Risk: Derailment Explained for Risk Professionals
September 4, 2025
Our capacity to act on climate change and nature loss can itself be eroded by increasing physical and transition risks, possibly derailing the ...
Valuing Adaptation: A Call to Understand What Matters
July 17, 2025
Increasing physical risks from climate change require greater efforts at adaptation. This article explores adaptation, why it is difficult to value ...
Understanding the Physical Risks Associated with Climate Change
July 3, 2025
How do financial risks arise from the physical impacts created by a changing climate, how are they increasing and what are their connections to other ...
How to Host a GARP Climate & Nature Risk Scenario Game
June 12, 2025
Experience an engaging way to bring climate and nature risk to life for your team or audience.
Urban Resilience and Infrastructure Development: An Indian Case Study
April 10, 2025
With the physical impacts of climate change affecting cities, how can they develop their infrastructure to both simultaneously reduce their emissions ...
How Weather Derivatives Hedge Against Nature’s Unpredictability
February 20, 2025
Discover how businesses are using weather derivatives to mitigate risks associated with adverse weather conditions.
Climate Tipping Points Explained for Risk Professionals
February 6, 2025
Climate tipping points are extremely dangerous thresholds in Earth’s natural systems. What are they, how do they work, and how can we respond to them?
What We Learned About Climate and Nature Risk in 2024
January 23, 2025
Hear from Jo Paisley and Maxine Nelson of the GARP Risk Institute as they look back on key learnings from the latest season of the Climate Risk ...
Inside India’s Agricultural Resilience to Climate Change
January 15, 2025
Climate change is impacting India’s ability to grow food. Where are the effects most felt and what adaptations are being made?
Climate & Nature Risk: An Interactive Scenario Game
October 25, 2024
For 90-minutes act on the board of a global food manufacturing company and time travel through to 2030 as you make real-time strategic decisions for ...
Tackling Nature Risk: Insights from Financial Supervisors and Practitioners
August 28, 2024
In this webcast, co-hosted by the European Banking Institute, hear from leading experts at the intersection of nature and finance, as we dive into ...
Climate-Related Infrastructure Failure Has Complex and Far-Reaching Economic Impacts
August 1, 2024
Damage to infrastructure has a broad range of impacts, which often aren’t considered by lenders. In this article, we look at how these impacts arise ...
An Introduction to Managing the Financial Risks from Nature Loss
July 9, 2024
Risk managers should understand how nature loss impacts their business. In this webcast, we outline why nature is a critical new risk area, and how ...
How Do We Measure Global Warming?
June 20, 2024
There are a variety of ways to calculate global warming, but which one is best suited for policy?
How Banks Can Better Manage Climate-Related Financial Risks
June 6, 2024
Actions can help a bank, its borrowers, or both. But which ones are most effective for managing the financial risks from physical climate events?
Understanding How the Financial System Impacts Climate Change
May 30, 2024
How does the financial system affect climate change? For example, are voluntary net-zero targets actually effective at driving the transition to net ...
Exploring the Connections Between Climate Change and Global Financial Stability
May 16, 2024
One of the many reasons for caring about climate change is its potential to lead to financial instability. But how might this happen and how likely ...
It’s Time for Climate Scenario Analysis to Evolve
May 9, 2024
The speed, scale and style of the low-carbon transition to a net-zero economy poses complex challenges. Here’s how the Bank of England is extending ...
3 Key Areas for Understanding Nature-Related Risks
April 4, 2024
Nature-related risks remain both less understood and less widely discussed than climate risks. As nature and biodiversity continue to decrease ...
Physical and Transition Risk Interactions: A Case Study in Mining
March 26, 2024
More frequent extreme weather events could make it harder to produce the minerals needed for the transition to a low-carbon economy. We explore how ...
Climate Risk Stress Testing: Agenda 2024
February 1, 2024
Banks, especially in Europe, have key climate-related stress test deliverables to complete in 2024. We highlight some key challenges that will need ...
Solving the Climate Data Problem: An Intro to the Net-Zero Data Public Utility
January 26, 2024
In this webcast, we take a deep-dive into the Net-Zero Data Public Utility (NZDPU) - the first global, centralized, open repository for private ...
Navigating New Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management
January 25, 2024
U.S. banking regulators have issued a new framework for climate-related risk. What are the core principles, and how should financial institutions ...
See the Forest and the Trees with the SCR
December 12, 2023
Companies across every industry sector are seeking professionals with sustainability and climate risk knowledge and skills to join their team. Are ...
Climate Trends, Narratives, Shocks and Credit Risk Stress Scenarios
October 26, 2023
Credit risk measurement still doesn’t adequately capture the effects of climate change. Why is that, and what can be done to improve the modelling?
India: A Case Study in Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
September 14, 2023
This article explores the difficult trade-offs that need to be made between the competing claims of climate mitigation, adaptation, and economic ...
4 Key Areas to Know About Climate Change
May 18, 2023
A brief introduction to climate change and four of its key facets: weather, climate, the greenhouse effect, and global warming.
Two Types of Biodiversity Measures to Be Aware of
April 5, 2023
To move beyond identifying the risks associated with biodiversity loss and begin quantifying them, it is essential to understand the different types ...
Biodiversity Loss: An Introduction for Risk Professionals
March 2, 2023
In recent years, biodiversity loss has gained increasing focus as an urgent and systemic environmental risk for its impact on global food security, ...
Scenario Analysis: Guidance for Risk Professionals
February 23, 2023
Hear from members of the UK’s Climate Financial Risk Forum Scenario Analysis Working Group, as we review useful tools and resources that risk ...
Climate Risk Stress Testing and the Role of Central Banks
February 3, 2023
Proponents and detractors have already weighed in on the Federal Reserve’s news climate scenario analysis exercise, which is designed to help banks ...
Climate Scenario Analysis in Financial Firms
December 12, 2022
Read GARP’s scenario analysis deep dive, published as part of the Climate Financial Risk Forum’s (CFRF) 2022 outputs.
Using Benchmarking to Assess the Plausibility of Climate Scenario Analysis
June 21, 2022
How can you judge the reasonableness of modelled scenario analysis outputs if the scenario is one that you’ve never experienced? This is a dilemma ...
Nature Loss and Financial Risk: Global Insights From the WWF
August 6, 2021
Learn about nature loss, its interconnections with climate change, and how it is creating significant risks for business and finance.
Hotter, sooner: A landmark effort refines — and raises — the warming outlook
September 9, 2020
Improved climate model narrows prediction uncertainty and raises the odds of serious climate impacts from global warming