Climate risk identification Archives | UKGBC /focus-areas/climate-risk-identification/ The voice of our sustainable built environment Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:46:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-UKGBC-favicon-1.png Climate risk identification Archives | UKGBC /focus-areas/climate-risk-identification/ 32 32 ESG and Climate Risk Tracking and Reporting Platform /resources/esg-and-climate-risk-tracking-and-reporting-platform/ Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:46:42 +0000 /?post_type=resource&p=63995 All-in-one platform that integrates key tools for climate risk assessment, sustainability performance tracking, and ESG data reporting.

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Problem Addressed

When addressing climate risk, ESG, and sustainability management, many organisations struggle with complex and interconnected challenges. Many systems for tracking climate-related data and social impact initiatives are fragmented. Additionally, there is often a lack of actionable insights for disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and regulatory and ESG reporting. There is also often an inability to create data-driven strategies for improving climate resilience and sustainability compliance.

Solution Overview

The Komunidad Climate Action Suite is an all-in-one platform that integrates key tools for climate risk assessment, sustainability performance tracking, and ESG data reporting. Key features include:

  • Climate Risk Insights: Access to real-time environmental data (weather, disaster alerts) to assess and mitigate climate-related risks.
  • Sustainability and ESG Management: Customizable dashboards for monitoring carbon emissions, energy usage, and social impact metrics.
  • Reporting and Compliance: Automated generation of reports aligned with international sustainability frameworks, making compliance with reporting standards (e.g., TCFD, SDGs) seamless.
  • Collaboration Tools: Interactive modules to engage stakeholders across different departments and partners in tracking and improving sustainability outcomes.

The platform aligns with many international standards (including GRESB) and guidelines and is highly flexible. While Climate Action Suite serves the global community, the platform can be customised for specific regions, with a granularity of 27x27m.

This solution empowers users to transform raw data into actionable insights and improve decision-making related to climate resilience and sustainability. By providing a unified platform, Komunidad enables stakeholders to measure, manage, and report environmental, social, and governance performance while aligning with sustainability frameworks and goals.

Case Study

OCTD (Oxford Centre for Technology and Development) needed a platform to monitor real-time climate risks, manage sustainability initiatives, and report ESG compliance across multiple global sites.

Komunidad deployed a customised version of the Climate Action Suite, branded as “ImpactOX powered by Komunidad”, tailored to meet OCTD’s need for localised environmental monitoring and global ESG reporting. The platform provided OCTD with an interactive portal to access climate risk insights and track sustainability goals in real-time. OCTD was able to streamline its ESG reporting by 50%, improve its disaster preparedness, and align operations with sustainability frameworks (including SDG 13: Climate Action).

Facts and Figures

ESG
Climate

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In-depth property- or location-specific data /resources/in-depth-property-or-location-specific-data/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:11:56 +0000 /?post_type=resource&p=56252 API service providing access to UK-wide energy efficiency, climate risk, and sustainability & wellbeing data.

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Problem Addressed

With an immense variety of factors influencing residential building performance, liveability, risk, and occupant wellbeing, it can be difficult to make informed decisions when evaluating properties or locations. The PropEco API addresses this, by making it faster, cheaper, and easier to assess and understand the data needed by companies, not-for-profits, and academics.

Solution Overview

The PropEco API integrates hundreds of source of enhanced open-source data, unique datasets, and proprietary models covering topics including climate change, flooding, air quality, overheating, energy use, exposure to pollution, and green retrofit potential. Users can generate an in-depth property- or location- specific assessment using just UPRN or coordinates. The API service provides access to UK-wide property and location data focusing on three core topics: energy efficiency, climate risks, and sustainability & wellbeing. It also provides an additional layer of statistical analysis and geospatial information to help users make the most of the data.

Some examples of the wide variety of information available for a specific property include:

  • Projected changes to weather patterns and temperature under multiple climate change scenarios
  • Concentrations of common pollutants
  • Proximity of greenspaces and parks
  • In-depth assessment of flood risk from rivers, seas, and surface water

The API also provides detailed information about a domestic property’s Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) in England, Scotland, or Wales including Raw EPCs, Enhanced EPCs (which have undergone a standardisation process to remove inconsistencies), and EPC Estimates based on the attributes of nearby properties. The PropEco energy model can add even more accurate projections of energy use and carbon footprint by factoring in specific attributes (property size, type, age, level of insulation, etc), local climatic conditions, occupancy levels, and usage patterns.

Case Study

The output of the API is designed to be used on a stand-alone basis or integrated with existing solutions. Current use cases include lenders assessing properties as part of their mortgage review process, property portals integrating the data into online profiles, and proptech companies using the API to enhance their products.

Facts and Figures

From £29
28 +

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DNA analysis for biodiversity insights /resources/dna-analysis-for-biodiversity-insights/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:30:26 +0000 /?post_type=resource&p=52716 eDNA biodiversity monitoring and insights

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Problem addressed

Understanding and reporting on nature can be challenging and complex. However, it is crucial for actors in the built environment to understand biodiversity and nature in order to gain insights into the species that exist within and around cities and urban areas. This is essential for both assessing and reporting on the potential impacts of urban developments on nature and biodiversity.

Solution overview

NatureMetrics offers quick, simple, and effective monitoring of nature to enable projects to identify early on in a project what steps might need to be taken to avoid and mitigate biodiversity impacts. Its DNA based monitoring enables environmental impact assessment and monitoring of nature-based mitigation and remediation.

The eDNA technology allows users to identify groups of species or single species. Customers can order their required species tests, collect their sample, and then return it to NatureMetrics to receive a report on the results, which is presented on their nature intelligence platform.

Metrics included in NatureMetrics’ standard eDNA reports include:

  • Species Richness
  • IUCN Threatened Species
  • Bacterial Functional Diversity
  • Invasive Species
  • Evolutionary Diversity
  • Fungal Functional Diversity

As NatureMetrics helps customers better understand their biodiversity data, they are able to identify risks associated with their projects so their customers can implement effective measures to mitigate them.

Case study

Uncovering the recovering biodiversity along the Sussex coast

In March 2021, the Sussex Nearshore Trawling Bylaw was introduced, banning trawling along the Sussex coastline in the hope that over time, the kelp forest ecosystem that used to thrive in these waters would recover.

Traditional survey methods including baited remote underwater video (BRUVs) are expensive and labour-intensive, so the University of Sussex wanted to compare this traditional method to NatureMetrics’ eDNA metabarcoding service to monitor biodiversity recovery inside the trawling exclusion zone over multiple years.

The University of Sussex chose to work with NatureMetrics metabarcoding service for the multi-year project as the surveying method is easily replicable and the simple sampling procedure meant sampling could be conducted by students.

An analysis of the project revealed that NatureMetrics’ eDNA solution detected three times as many marine vertebrate species along the Sussex coast compared to traditional baited remote underwater video surveys.

Furthermore, the analysis compared the effort required for both methods. Visual surveys, including fieldwork and data processing, demanded an extensive total effort of 7 hours per survey site, equivalent to 8 hours for each species detected. In contrast, utilizing NatureMetrics’ eDNA service significantly reduced the effort to only 25 minutes per survey site or 1.25 minutes per species detected. These time savings highlight the efficiency and cost-effectiveness offered by eDNA technology.

Facts and Figures

200 %
7 hrs
5 Min

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Climate Risk Indicators /resources/climate-risk-indicators/ Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:30:53 +0000 /?post_type=resource&p=48211 An online tool with information on future changes to indicators of climate risk across the UK.

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Problem Addressed

We are already seeing the effects of climate change on the UK. It is affecting people’s everyday lives, businesses, and nature. The UK Climate Resilience Programme investigates a range of different climate risks across different sectors to better understand the risk of climate change to the UK and to create outcomes and tools for decisions makers and researchers.

Solution overview

The Climate Risk Indicators by The UK Climate Resilience Programme, The University of Reading, and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a website that provides information on future changes to indicators of climate risk across the UK. The information is provided at scales ranging from the district to the four nations of the UK, and for several different scenarios describing how global emissions might increase in the future.

Users can plot maps showing the variation in indicators across the UK and can plot and download current or future time series for specific locations. The indicators are grouped into categories of climate, temperature extremes, heating and cooling, transport and agriculture. It is also possible to select different settings such as emissions scenarios and regions. User can plot climate risk indicators based on variants for different seasons and metrics (for example days per year or % chance).

The research underpinning the data on the website was undertaken as part of the  funded by UK Research and Innovation and the Met Office. It uses the  produced by the Met Office.

The Climate Risk Indicators tool is free to use.

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AI-powered platform to assess homes /resources/ai-powered-platform-to-assess-homes/ Tue, 09 May 2023 08:16:44 +0000 /?post_type=resource&p=46428 Assess and improve the climate resilience, energy efficiency & liveability of any UK property.

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Problem addressed

PropEco remove or reduce many of the key barriers that stand in the way of ‘future-proofing’ residential property. These include challenges in accessing data, as well as the complexity and high costs that are common in most retrofitting processes.

Solution overview

PropEco are developing an AI-powered platform that makes it as easy, quick and inexpensive as possible to assess and improve the energy efficiency, climate resilience and liveability of residential property. PropEco connects customers with funding sources, accredited installers and technology providers to make home upgrades as quick, easy and cheap as possible.

Each assessment leverages hundreds of sources of data, proprietary models and artificial intelligence to provide a comprehensive assessment of how ‘future-proof’ a property is. This considers a wide range of factors including energy efficiency, resilience to risks emerging from climate change (e.g., overheating or changing flood patterns) and sustainability / wellbeing (e.g., air quality or access to EV charging infrastructure). Any risks and opportunities identified are presented in a concise and engaging format alongside links to tools and partners that can facilitate recommended property upgrades.

Depending on the level of customisation required, PropEco can start generating white-labelled reports for partners within a matter of days. Set-up is designed to be flexible, requiring little or no upfront investment. Reports can then be paid for on a per-unit basis or via a monthly subscription, with price set at a cost-effective level that reflects volume and content. Through enhancing customer relationships, stimulating demand for green home upgrades and reducing risks, the service offers a compelling ROI that will only grow as the impacts of climate change become more apparent.

Based on a property assessment priced at £20-50, a £15,000 retrofit and an average property price of £275,000, the percentage cost of the solution compared to whole cost of the retrofit per unit is around 0.2% of the cost of a standard retrofit or 0.01% of the average property price.

Case study

The assessments are available directly through and are due to be rolled-out (in a white-labelled format) with several lenders and estate agents over the next six months.

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Platform to analyse weather risk for construction projects /resources/platform-to-analyse-weather-risk-for-construction-projects/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:07:38 +0000 /?post_type=resource&p=46572 A weather risk management platform helping construction innovators win more bids, plan more effectively and better manage extreme weather events.

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Problem addressed

Construction projects are suffering more and more delays due to climate change and extreme weather events.

Solution overview

EHAB is a cloud base SaaS platform that plugs into construction planning and risk software to provide a granular analysis of weather risk on a construction project. The outputs can be used to reduce weather exposure in the long term, implement better mitigations, reduce insurance premiums, and to generate a parametric insurance policy which pays out automatically in the event of extreme weather delays. There is also a short term planning tool to better plan weather windows of critical work. It integrates with P6, MPP, PRA and Acumen Fuse. In the best case scenario it can reduce plan length by 16%.

It costs £1,800 – £20,000 per year per project depending on size and complexity of uploaded plan. This is a large return on investment compared to % savings of the total programme.

Case study

EHAB was used on the bid for the Tay Link Road project, a £100m road and bridge building scheme in Scotland. It helped to provide clear weather data in the QSRA for the tender, helping to win the job. It is now used on an ongoing basis by the project to provide weather data and inform planning decisions.

Facts and Figures

Up to 16%
£1,800 – £20,000

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Climate risk analytics platform /resources/climate-risk-analytics-platform/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:39:57 +0000 /resources/climanomics-climate-risk-analytics-platform/ SaaS platform making it easy for companies and investors to measure the climate risk of their assets and portfolios.

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Problem Addressed

The world has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of extreme weather events in recent years. The past 20 years saw a 74% increase in disasters linked to natural hazards compared to the prior two decades. This has resulted in 1.23 million lives claimed, 4 billion people affected and $2.7 trillion in global economic losses (

Climate change will transform our planet, with some geographies at greater risk than others – knowing where these risks are and when they will become material is challenging. At the Climate Service, now part of S&P Global, climate experts and data scientists have built an easy-to-use, science-backed climate risk analytics platform to help you identify and measure climate risk in your assets, business, and investment portfolio.

Solution Overview

The Climanomics® platform provides climate risk analytics for seven physical hazards (drought, wildfire, temperature extreme, water stress, coastal flooding, river flooding, and tropical cyclones) to real assets, under four climate scenarios based on the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). Adopted by the IPCC, the pathways describe different climate futures, all of which are considered possible depending on the volume of GHGs emitted in the years to come. This is all delivered via an easy-to-use SaaS platform built by a team of climate scientists, technologists, economists, data scientists, and finance professionals.

The platform makes it easy for companies and investors to measure the climate risk of their assets and portfolios. Customers upload basic information about their assets – type, location, value – and the platform will model expected losses due to climate change. Users can analyse seven different hazards for more than 250 asset types anywhere in the world. One-click scenario analysis enables them to explore different climate futures out to the year 2100. Climanomics® uses a robust, transparent, and verifiable global risk modelling methodology that leverages a Hazard-Vulnerability-Risk framework, similar to that used by insurance companies.

The expected loss outputs can be used for analysing climate risk in:

  • Business operations.
  • Risk management.
  • Strategic planning.
  • Investment due diligence.
  • Portfolio analysis.
  • Credit modelling for residential (mortgage) and commercial lending.
  • Project finance due diligence.
  • TCFD reporting.

The tool works as a standalone solution to screen a global portfolio of assets and to identify what risks will become material, to which assets, in what timeframe. Once the high-risk assets are identified, customers access results (via interactive dashboards or download) that can be followed up with an engineering level analysis and used to support mitigation and adaptation planning.

The Climanomics® platform is built on the world’s latest, most rigorous climate science datasets, including from the , the , the , and much more. The models on which the analytics are based are available directly in the platform, and the complete literature-based document library of impact functions can also be made available for audit and explainability purposes.

The Climanomics® platform is available as an annual subscription, priced based on number of assets. There are no setup or installation costs, though customers may opt to have models built for custom/new asset types at additional cost.

Having transparency into climate risk means that companies and investors can identify and manage climate risks over the medium and long term, protecting millions of dollars in assets from impacts due to climate change. Climanomics’ financial impact-based outputs provide actionable and decisionable insights that help companies manage risk and capture opportunities associated with climate change.

Case Study

The mortgage team at a large bank was working closely with their credit risk colleagues to understand potential weaknesses within the bank’s mortgage portfolio. It was clear to both teams that physical climate risks should be taken into account given the alarming increase in the number of extreme weather events in recent years. This would require the expertise of specialists who had developed proven methodologies to project the impact of such hazards on key portfolios over time to identify the most at-risk assets.

The Climanomics® platform would provide the mortgage team with:

  • A rigorous screening of physical risks – starts by utilizing publicly available raw climate data from sources such as the IPCC, the NOAA, the WWF, and much more.
  • A price on climate change – quantifies physical risks in financial terms (average annual loss) that are aligned with the recommendations of the TCFD.
  • Scenario analysis – incorporates four climate scenarios based on the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), a GHG concentration trajectory adopted by the IPCC.
  • Visualizations of insights – delivers simple charts, graphs, narrative and data for export that provide insights into the location, severity and timing of climate-related risks.
  • An additional lens to evaluate risks – investigates market-level trends the probability of municipal adaptation and insurability as an additive layer to the outputs from the physical risk analysis.

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Climate Risk Data Analytics /resources/climate-risk-data-analytics/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:21:11 +0000 /resources/climate-x-climate-risk-data-analytics/ Delivering location-specific risk ratings and climate adjusted loss estimates for organisations through accessing insights under multiple climate emission pathways.

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Problem Addressed

The accelerating pace of climate change is driving increasingly disruptive and costly consequences to property and building owners worldwide. The gap between insured vs. uninsured losses is widening thanks to the failure of traditional methods and approaches to inform of future climate-related risks. This is due to the fact that typical risk models focus on past data trends to anticipate future risk. However, climate change is non-linear and non-stationary – so they are fundamentally broken.

The climate transition isn’t only about moving to net zero. Today, the emphasis on understanding how extreme weather patterns will shift as a result of climate change and what that means for the world around us (in particular the built environment) is becoming as, if not more, urgent. These risks can be observed manifesting as physical hazards such as floods, subsidence, landslides, coastal erosion, storms, extreme temperatures and other hazards.

Data is required to project these risks from now and into the future, and then attribute financial impacts that will help serve as drivers for targeted economic investment – climate adaptation finance.

Solution Overview

Climate X is an award-winning global climate risk data analytics provider. They enable asset managers, real estate developers and construction companies to analyse the impact of future extreme weather events linked to climate change at both individual site/asset and portfolio levels. Their models are fully validated through a range of approaches including back-testing and have been scrutinised by industry leading academics and risk professionals.

Customer’s are using Spectra to:

  • Strengthen GRESB scores and TCFD disclosures.
  • Integrate climate risk into the due diligence process, pricing and for portfolio management.
  • Attribute financial impacts to exposure to hazards and validate investment decisions.

Climate X’s platform, Spectra, is available via a self-service online platform or customisable API.

Contact the team to access the demo platform for free.

Case Study

Climate X’s solutions are trusted by financial institutions including Banks, Building Societies and Asset Managers/Real Estate companies as well as trusted consulting groups including Deloitte LLP.

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SaaS climate analytics platform /resources/saas-climate-analytics-platform/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:18:33 +0000 /resources/intensels-blueswan-analytics/ A SaaS platform using climate analytics and AI to identify and manage CVAR, now and into the future.

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Problem Addressed

Climate risk is financial risk, and it is accelerating at an alarming rate. It is also a systematic and unpriced risk within our global financial system. Floods, droughts, typhoons, and storm surges result in billions of dollars of losses every year and these losses are set to increase over the next decades. To add to this threat, the climate system is highly interconnected and complex. This makes it challenging to map climate risks to physical assets and critical infrastructure. Effective climate risk mitigation measures are therefore lacking, leaving most assets vulnerable to climate change. Intensel’s mission is to build a more resilient global economy with climate solutions that support real-time, accurate decision-making.

Solution Overview

Intensel offers a climate analytics platform in the form of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. Using AI, supercomputers, big data, and in-house PhD climate scientists and financial experts, Intensel has developed a scalable fintech solution to help clients – banks, real estate owners, insurance companies, and asset managers – identify and understand the financial impacts of climate change now and under future climate scenarios so that they may build more climate-resilient portfolios and stay ahead of imminent climate regulations.

The cost of the “Blueswan” solution range is between US$ 25,000 and US$ 100,000 depending on the number of assets analyzed. The platform enables clients to identify their potential Climate Value at Risk (CVAR) due to a range of climate hazards as a result of climate change. Presented as a % as well as in a dollar value. These metrics enable organizations to identify and manage risks and opportunities and disclose them in their reports that will satisfy investors as well as regulators.

Case Study

Dragon Capital is an investment group focused on Vietnam and other Southeast Asian emerging markets. Dedicated to improving corporate governance, contributing to society, and promoting sustainable development in the countries in which it invests, Dragon Capital (DC) seeks to optimize risk-adjusted performance by integrating ESG factors – including climate change – across its actively managed funds, comprising public equity and bond funds. To this end, in late 2020, Intensel ran its ‘blueswan’ portfolio climate risk assessment on DC’s Veil portfolio of 35 companies and 154 assets in Vietnam.

It is well known that Vietnam has a long coastline, and large deltas housing a rapidly growing urban population. Intensel’s analysis shows that the country faces big challenges in three of the five major physical risk categories: floods, storm surges, and typhoons.

DC and the Intensel team selected those physical assets that, via portfolio weightings and market capitalization, are most significant to the value of the company. It was determined that for Veil the significance is not the current value at risk itself, but rather the likely projected increase in value at risk, until the period 2030-2050, under the given assumptions.

Facts and Figures

US$ 25,000 – US$ 100,000

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Tools to determine the impact of development on nature /resources/tools-to-determine-the-impact-of-development-on-nature/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:58:09 +0000 /resources/policysupport-org/ A suite of tools to provide rigorous spatial evidence in development decision making.

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Problem Addressed

This solution was sourced in response to UKGBC’s Innovation Challenge: “How can communities and local authorities implement, maintain, and assess the impact of nature-based solutions to enhance climate resilience?”

Policysupport.org believes that policy for sustainable development can be better (more equitable and more effective) when based on the available scientific evidence. It has therefore focused on bridging the gap from scientific data and knowledge to policy and management decision-making by building and deploying data-intensive, science-based spatial policy support systems. The suite of tools enables science to be delivered in more actionable formats.

Solution Overview

Policysupport.org consists of a suite of tools to provide rigorous spatial evidence in development decision making. The tools include Co$tingNature, WaterWorld, EcoActuary and FreeStation.

Co$tingNature, WaterWorld and EcoActuary are sophisticated spatial policy support systems that bring together the best available spatial data in easily used web based spatial policy support systems which help to understand:

  1. The impact of development on Nature and of Nature on development (Co$tingNature);
  2. The impact of development on Water resources and water risk (WaterWorld);
  3. The impact of development and climate change on flood risk (EcoActuary).

FreeStation is a suite of designs for self-build low-cost internet-of-things monitoring devices and associated build, maintenance, and deployment guides for monitoring the effectiveness of nature-based solutions at spatial or temporal scales too fine – or situations too complex – for modelling. Together this suite of tools significantly reduces technical and financial barriers to use of rigorous spatial evidence in development decision making.

All are freely accessible for non-commercial use and licensed for commercial use. The annual license depends on the level of functionality required, but ranges from £1000-£9000 currently. These licenses include support.

Verification & Case Study

The policysupport.org suite of tools are designed to calculate the impact of different solutions at design stage or post-implementation and through spatial mapping or multi-point direct monitoring in the landscape.

Case Study: Since these tools represent a wide range of solutions it is best to consult which documents them.

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