Scientific Climate Ratings, EDHEC Climate Institute

Climate Exposure Ratings, Climate Risk Ratings, ClimateMetrics

Scientific Climate Ratings (SCR), an EDHEC Climate Institute venture, issues forward-looking climate ratings — Climate Exposure Ratings, Climate Risk Ratings and ClimateMetrics — that express the financial materiality of physical and transition risk as impacts on asset net asset value. It applies academically grounded damage functions, geospatial asset data and probabilistic scenarios to 2035 and 2050 to rate thousands of infrastructure assets on an A–G scale, and is extending to listed equities. Distinctive for its valuation-based, comparable A–G rating format and EDHEC research lineage — positioned as a climate ratings provider rather than a raw-data or platform vendor.

Vendor methodology

Transparency Score

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Public transparency, not model quality iThe Transparency Score (0–3) estimates public methodological transparency: the degree to which the vendor's analytical approach to modeling climate and nature risk can be assessed from publicly available sources. It is explicitly not a measure of vendor quality or accuracy.

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Methodology-relevant: vendor websites or external resources explain methodological details.

Methodology-relevant: public materials set out the method reconstructably — peer-reviewed climate models, IPCC/Copernicus hazard projections, validated economic damage functions (hazard probability x intensity -> scenario-specific loss), NGFS scenarios (Orderly/Disorderly/No Transition), 100+ damage/vulnerability models, the ClimaTech database (240+ sources) and named S1+2/S3 methodology documents.

For further information, see the section 'Transparency Score methodology' in the Readme.

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