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ESG InFocus
May, 2023
 
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Is climate resilience on your radar?

 
 
 
What you do today matters tomorrow.

Over a third (34%) of the world’s largest companies have at least one asset at high financial risk due to climate physical hazard exposure by the 2050s.

46% of the world’s largest companies have at least one asset located in a Key Biodiversity Area that could be exposed to increased reputational and regulatory risks in the future.

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Focus on Indonesia: 2050 climate change scenarios show significant physical risk to datacenters

In recent years, Indonesia has become an important hub for hyperscale cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, which has boosted the digital transformation. Given these investments alongside growing concerns over climate change, one cannot help but wonder about the physical risk exposure of these new and planned datacenters.

 
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How the world’s largest companies depend on nature and biodiversity

S&P Global Sustainable1 data shows that 85% of companies in the S&P Global 1200 — an index that covers the 1,200 largest companies across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America — have a significant dependency on nature across their direct operations.

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Corporate Credit Risk and Climate Change: Energy Transition Opportunities and Physical Risk Challenges

Governments, policymakers, and financial regulators are zeroing in on the economic, societal and financial implications of climate change. On one side, it is important to mitigate risks connected to global warming. On the other, it is critical to understand the costs and investments needed to convert current technology into greener solutions over the next decades and manage credit risk of the companies involved.

 
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Adaptation planning is the next step for companies to prepare for climate risk
Only one in five companies has a plan in place to adapt to the physical risks of climate change, according to the latest data from the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment. The utilities and energy sectors are more advanced in adapting their business to extreme weather events and other climate-related hazards. Even among some of the sectors that consider climate change a top material issue, there are gaps in physical risk adaptation planning.

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