Assessing Risks and Opportunities: Tools and Frameworks for Effective Presentation

Are there any tools or frameworks you use to help assess these risks? How do you present these risks and opportunities to others (e.g., charts, scorecards, qualitative write-up, specific quantitative data)?

Some tools that could be helpful:

The World Resources Institute's AqueductLinks to an external site.

Aqueduct’s tools use open-source, peer reviewed data to map water risks such as floods, droughts and stress. 

• Aqueduct Water Risk AtlasLinks to an external site., which maps and analyzes current and future water risks across locations;

• Aqueduct Country RankingsLinks to an external site., which allows decision-makers to understand and compare national and subnational water risks;

• Aqueduct FoodLinks to an external site., which identifies current and future water risks to agriculture and food security; and

• Aqueduct FloodsLinks to an external site., which identifies coastal and riverine flood risks, and analyzes the costs and benefits of investing in flood protection.

Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Calculation Tools and GuidanceLinks to an external site.

GHG Protocol establishes comprehensive global standardized frameworks to measure and manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private and public sector operations, value chains and mitigation actions.

Resource WatchLinks to an external site.

Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens. Users can visualize challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more.

Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI)Links to an external site.

TPI’s mission is to empower investors to drive the low-carbon transition by providing independent, open-access data showing whether the world’s largest high emitting companies are adapting their strategies to align with international climate goals.

ClimateWise Transition Risk FrameworkLinks to an external site.

The ClimateWise Transition Risk Framework helps investors and regulators manage risks and capture emerging opportunities from the low carbon transition. This unique framework was developed through the ClimateWise Insurance Advisory Council, and builds on the recommendations from the TCFD. The framework is set out in three steps, which can be used independently or combined to explore transition risks and opportunities. Each of the three steps highlights practical actions investors might take in order to manage risks and capture opportunities. The framework applies this analysis to an array of global infrastructure asset types.

American Communities Project: Mapping Climate Risks by County and CommunityLinks to an external site.

With the Biden administration elevating climate change concerns to the national agenda, the American Communities Project leveraged data from Four Twenty Seven, a physical climate risk data firm and affiliate of Moody’s, to understand how the risks manifest by ACP type — and where populations and infrastructure may be especially vulnerable.