Climate Risk Analysis

– Act proactively, grow sustainably – recognize risks, seize opportunities

How do customers benefit from our experience?

✔ Early risk minimisation: By systematically identifying and assessing physical and transition climate risks, you can take adaptation measures at an early stage and thereby minimise potential damage and costs.  

✔ Strengthening resilience: Proactive climate risk management increases your company’s resilience to climate-related disruptions and safeguards the continuity of your business processes, even in times of crisis.  

✔ Transparency & trust: Disclosing and managing climate risks builds trust among stakeholders, customers and partners and strengthens your reputation in the market.  

✔ Strategic basis for decision-making: Climate risk analyses provide the foundation for forward-looking investment and location decisions and enable the development of sustainable business models.  

✔ Increasing brand value: Companies that actively address climate risks increase their brand value and company valuation and position themselves as pioneers in the field of sustainability.  

✔ Meeting reporting obligations: A robust climate risk analysis supports compliant reporting in accordance with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy Regulation by ensuring transparency regarding climate-related risks and taxonomy-aligned activities.  

What is our approach?

2. Screening of climate hazards

Identification of relevant hazards
Systematic identification of all climate hazards in accordance with Annex A of the EU Taxonomy (e.g. heat, heavy rainfall, flooding, drought). 

Software-supported hazard analysis
Using specialised climate risk software (CLIMADA Technologies) and available climate data, a spatial prioritisation of potentially relevant hazards is carried out for each site. 

Function-related relevance assessment
Assessment of the exposure of individual system elements.
The final determination of material hazards is validated jointly in a workshop. 

3. Carrying out the risk assessment

The quantitative risk assessment is based on the CLIMADA methodology.  

CLIMADA is a scientifically developed modelling platform for analysing physical climate risks. It enables the systematic linking of climate scenarios, hazard models and damage functions, thereby ensuring a transparent, data-based risk assessment.  

The assessment is based on three core components: 

• Exposure: Geographical location and full mapping of all relevant assets and system elements.  

• Hazard: Modelling of current climate risks and future developments, taking recognised climate scenarios into account.  

• Vulnerability: Analysis of the sensitivity of assets, including underlying damage functions. 

By combining these three factors, climate risk is quantified and made comparable. This enables a sound prioritisation of risks as well as a robust basis for strategic decisions and regulatory disclosure obligations. 

4. Development and assessment of adaptation measures

Based on the identified risks, we develop concrete, prioritised options for action to reduce risk and support climate adaptation.  

We distinguish between: 

• short-term organisational measures  

• technical protective measures  

• strategic, long-term transformation measures 

The result is a sound basis for decisions on investments, site selection and compliant reporting within the framework of regulatory requirements.  

With this structured approach, we ensure that your climate risk analysis not only meets regulatory requirements, but also creates real added value for the sustainable development of your company.