Regional Physical Hazard MetricsAssess the impacts of a warming world on your investments.
Weathering physical climate risks
Our climate risk assessment data is designed to inform investors, lenders and companies of physical hazard levels with a micro-regional granularity, positioning them to better contain costs and fuel new growth. The data offers insight into asset-, administrative- and country-level exposure to climate hazards across time horizons and climate scenarios, designed for clients working with both publicly traded and privately held assets:
- Regional Company Exposure to Physical Hazards — Listed companies
- Regional Physical Hazard Metrics — Unlisted companies
Asset managers
Pinpoint the vulnerability of assets to physical risk, facilitate investment due diligence, construct climate-resilient portfolios, and generate disclosure-ready physical-hazard reports for the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and other frameworks.
Get granular insights into the impact of physical risk across your loan book for both listed and unlisted companies and sharpen climate-related credit risk management. Support reporting for the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the European Banking Authority’s Pillar 3 reporting and other frameworks.
Insurance companies
Strengthen underwriting and investments by deepening insight into physical risk exposures such as wildfires and flooding. Support reporting for the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA), Solvency II and other industry frameworks.
See the exposure of facilities to physical climate hazards. Surface physical risk and strengthen operational resilience and planning. Report for the ISSB, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and other regulatory and voluntary frameworks.
As temperatures rise, so do the risks
Additional extreme heat days in 2050 compared with 2022
Source: MSCI ESG Research, June 21, 2023
Investor-grade data and expertise
Get insight into exposure to physical climate hazards across time horizons and scenarios for both public and private assets.
Surface exposure by location at the asset, regional and country levels with regional company exposure to physical hazards for listed companies and regional physical hazard metrics for unlisted firms.
Our physical risk datasets are designed to help you align with both mandatory and voluntary disclosure and sustainability reporting frameworks.
Research and resources
Mapping Extreme-Heat Costs for the World’s Largest Cities
As temperatures rise, so do the risks from extreme heat. Using hazard percentiles compared across climate scenarios, we assess the cities and sectors that could be most impacted and the costs they could face.
The Potential Impact of El Niño on Sovereign Debt
Hazard data is a key component of physical-risk modeling. We mapped the physical assets operated by constituents of the MSCI AC Asia Investable Market Index to the most prevalent climate hazards in the region to see where the risks lie.
Most Prevalent Climate Hazards Found in APAC
A look at the region’s exposure to extreme heat, tropical cyclones and coastal flooding, based on MSCI’s physical-risk modeling.
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