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Scientific Climate Ratings
We turn climate science into financial insights.
About Scientific Climate Ratings
Scientific Climate Ratings is an independent rating agency within the EDHEC Business School venture ecosystem. We provide science-based, forward-looking ratings to help investors and issuers assess the financial materiality of climate risks and drive effective decarbonisation and resilience strategies. Leveraging EDHEC’s award-winning expertise in climate finance, Scientific Climate Ratings delivers transparent, standardised assessments covering over 6,000 infrastructure assets across 25 countries. By 2026, the agency will expand its coverage to include more than 4,000 leading listed companies worldwide, applying the same methodological rigour to corporate climate risk assessments. Our ratings enable the financial community to quantify and manage both physical and transition risks - setting a new global benchmark for climate risk assessment.
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Signals from Scientific Climate Ratings
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Research & Knowledge
Scientific Climate Ratings noted that the AI build-out is a technology story and an infrastructure story, and where an asset sits shapes its climate risk more than whose logo is on the building.
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Scientific Climate Ratings found that wind reaches every site in the sample and drives most of the modelled impact.
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Scientific Climate Ratings found that wildfire and heat carry smaller financial impacts here, heat through operational disruption rather than structural damage.
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Scientific Climate Ratings found that under a high emissions pathway, the average cost of inaction by 2050 runs from 3.4% of asset value in Sweden to 20.6% in Japan.
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Scientific Climate Ratings found that two facilities in the same portfolio can sit at opposite ends of the distribution.
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Scientific Climate Ratings found that location outweighs operator in terms of cost of inaction by 2050.
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Scientific Climate Ratings found that across operators, the same measure spans only 4.3% to 9.6%.
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Scientific Climate Ratings assessed 1,000 data centres across 34 countries and 11 operators for exposure to wind, flood, wildfire, and heat out to 2050.
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Scientific Climate Ratings found that flood reaches 185 of the 1,000, but hits hard where it lands, reaching 8.92% of asset value at the worst placed site.
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Scientific Climate Ratings found that at one facility in Kōtō, Tokyo, the flood adaptation measures already in place cut modelled value impact by 62% and reduce the cost of inaction to 2050 by more than half, without moving the asset off its G rating.
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Presence & Recognition
Scientific Climate Ratings is speaking at the Nordic Climate Finance Summit 2026 on how climate exposure translates into financial impact across geographies and time horizons at the National Gallery of Norway on Thursday 10 September 2026.
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Presence & Recognition
Scientific Climate Ratings announced that Mariya Peykova will be speaking on the Nordic Climate Finance Summit in Oslo on 9 September.
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