A New Standard in Climate Ratings

Scientific Climate Ratings is an independent climate risk ratings agency born from the EDHEC Climate Institute's applied research ecosystem. We deliver forward-looking ratings, data, and analytics that quantify the financial materiality of climate risks for infrastructure, real assets, corporate, and sovereign exposures worldwide. Combining high-resolution geospatial data, proprietary climate risk models, and one of the world's largest financial datasets, Scientific Climate Ratings 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).

Our ratings and climate metrics assess climate exposure and financial vulnerability across multiple climate scenarios and time horizons, enabling users to move beyond qualitative climate risk assessments toward fully quantified inputs for financial decision-making. Applications include capital allocation, risk pricing, resilience planning, portfolio construction, scenario analysis, and regulatory disclosures.

Climate ratings are currently available for more than 6,000 infrastructure assets globally, over 180 sovereigns, and can be extended to any real asset worldwide through the ClimateMetrics self-assessment platform. Scientific Climate Ratings will expand its coverage in 2026 to 4,000+ listed equities, delivering consistent, comparable, and forward-looking climate ratings across asset classes.

Scientific Climate Ratings aims to set a new standard in climate risk management, steering capital towards a more resilient future.

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At Scientific Climate Ratings, 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 combines 100+ climate damage and vulnerability models with billions of climate, financial, and geospatial data points to quantify the financial materiality of physical and transition risks across infrastructure, corporate, and sovereign entities globally.
180+
sovereigns and 3,400+ regions covered woldwide
100+
climate damage and vulnerability models
6,000+
infrastructure assets rated globally
1,800+
decarbonisation and resilience strategies assessed
Billions
of climate, financial, and geospatial datapoints
4,000+

listed equities coverage
launching in 2026

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.
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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.