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A New Standard in Climate Ratings

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.

See Our Climate Ratings

At Scientific Climate Ratings (SCR), we are committed to quantifying climate risks, serving both corporate issuers and investors. Our goal is to establish common standards for industries and corporations, enabling them to assess their exposure to climate risks and the associated financial materiality.
Our ratings are provided for different climate scenarios and time horizons to enable users to manage their own climate risk strategies.

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Key Figures

Leveraging the extensive experience of the EDHEC Climate Institute ecosystem, Scientific Climate Ratings uses robust models and over 9 million data points to rate infrastructure assets based on the financial materiality of transition and physical risks.
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30+ damage functions to quantify physical risk impacts
9M
company-, sector- and country-level data points
6,000+
infrastructure assets with a Potential Climate Exposure Rating
1,800+
decarbonisation and resilience strategies assessed
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sector-specific emission models
5,000+

listed equities
coming soon

Our Methodology

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Model-based approach
We use comprehensive science-based models to cover a wide range of private infrastructures. These models assess both transition and physical risks in a robust, systematic and homogeneous way.
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Incorporating company-specific climate strategies
We collaborate with rated entities to review their resilience and decarbonisation initiatives to adjust their final climate risk ratings based on the provided idiosyncratic components.
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Forward-looking ratings
Measure and benchmark future risks for 6,000+ infrastructure assets worldwide.
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Aligned with international standards
Scientific Climate Ratings offers cutting-edge climate finance expertise that provides credible, consistent risk assessments aligned with international standards.

Key Product Features

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From isolated "what if" scenarios to quantifying climate risk across multiple pathways
Our Climate Risk Ratings offer a comprehensive perspective, allowing the market to shift from concentrating on a single scenario to considering multiple scenario pathways when assessing potential financial loss. This approach provides a solid, data-driven foundation for strategic decision-making across assets, portfolios, and regions.
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New standard for assessing the financial materiality of climate risk
We offer independent assessments of the financial materiality of both physical and transition risks. Our ratings are consistent and comparable, as opposed to varying and partial approaches.
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Precise geoshape extractions for companies
Our ratings are powered by exact geoshape extractions. Together with global hazard maps, they allow for precise damage measures. For instance, for fluvial, pluvial, and coastal floods, global hazard maps with a resolution of 10m by 10m provide the flood depth and how much of an asset is affected by it.
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The largest global database of strategies for infrastructure decarbonisation & resilience
We integrate the most relevant idiosyncratic company data in our climate risk quantification, collected from the rated companies. Our team of experts assesses the relevance of the decarbonisation and resilience strategies, using our ClimaTech database of 1,800+ strategies’ effectiveness.
ClimaTech
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Extensive coverage of our best-in-class infrastructure database
With 6,000+ infrastructure assets rated across 25 countries, we equip investors and issuers with the essential tools to effectively compare and contextualise climate risks across 100+ sub-sectors. 
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Robust and trusted data quality
Aligned with the Partnership of Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) reference scale, our Data Quality Scores provide a clear measure of the reliability and accuracy of all input data points used to calculate our climate ratings.