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Climate Research Highlights
Issue n°7, April 2026
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Welcome to the seventh edition of EDHEC's Climate Research Highlights, showcasing the latest research, insights, and innovations from the EDHEC Climate Institute and EDHEC Ventures. This quarter, we focus on how climate science is translated into decision-relevant tools and insights, from infrastructure risk assessment to temperature modelling and climate risk ratings. We highlight recent developments including ClimaTech, EDHEC-EXCITE, EDHEC-CLIRMAP, and Scientific Climate Ratings. This edition also features new publications, media contributions, and upcoming events, including the “Art & Climat” concert in Paris and the FT Climate & Impact Summit in London.
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Latest Insights
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ClimaTech: Infrastructure Investors’ Climate Compass
Climate risks could destroy up to $600bn in infrastructure value by 2050, while physical hazards may threaten more than half of some portfolios. In this interview, Camille Angué explains how ClimaTech helps investors and operators navigate these challenges. By evaluating over 1,800 technologies based on their real impact, the platform supports better risk assessment, limits greenwashing and guides more informed infrastructure decisions.
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How Hot Will it Get? EDHEC-EXCITE: A New Way to Explore Climate Futures
In this article, Lionel Melin and Fangyuan Zhang present EDHEC-EXCITE, a new temperature emulator developed by EDHEC Climate Institute. This interactive, science-based tool helps users explore how different emissions pathways may influence future global warming. By combining results from multiple climate models, it highlights the uncertainty surrounding climate sensitivity while allowing users to include or exclude certain projections. Designed to make complex climate science more accessible, it supports policymakers, investors and businesses in understanding how today’s decisions on emissions could shape future temperature outcomes.
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EDHEC-CLIRMAP: Mapping Climate Risk and Economic Impacts
In this interview, Nicolas Schneider presents EDHEC-CLIRMAP, an interactive online tool that maps the potential economic impacts of climate change across regions. It offers a detailed geographic view of how rising temperatures could affect local economies under different scenarios. The tool shows that climate change will not impact all areas equally, highlighting possible regional “winners” and “losers.” It also emphasises that these outcomes are not fixed and depend on the decisions we make today, particularly regarding adaptation strategies.
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![[#dataviz] ClimaTech - A World-First Climate Asset Lens](https://docs.climateimpactedhec.com/highlights_apr26/insight_004.jpg "[#dataviz] ClimaTech - A World-First Climate Asset Lens")
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[#dataviz] ClimaTech: A World-First Climate Asset Lens
Climate change is already disrupting infrastructure, as key assets face both physical and transition risks. However, existing tools often remain too general to capture sector-specific and regional vulnerabilities or to support effective decision-making. To address this gap, EDHEC Climate Institute has developed ClimaTech, an innovative, science-based platform that maps climate-related risks across the infrastructure value chain. This is the first in a three-part series on ClimaTech. The next carousels will highlight practical use cases, including data centres and ports.
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Scientific Climate Ratings: The Missing Link for Investors
In a context of widespread greenwashing and fragmented ESG metrics, Scientific Climate Ratings aims to redefine how climate risk is assessed financially. In this interview, CEO Rémy Estran-Fraioli presents a new science-based rating system that measures the financial materiality of climate risk. By combining climate data, economic modelling and forward-looking scenarios, it helps investors and institutions better evaluate asset exposure and integrate climate risk into decision-making.
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Reference Publications
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EDHEC Research Insights supplement to Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) 2026
In this supplement, authors examine geo-sectoral climate damage, climate state-dependent discount factors, and methods for translating climate data into financially relevant metrics. They also explore the impact of climate risk on infrastructure valuation, weather dynamics in commodities markets, resilience and decarbonisation in the EU Taxonomy, sustainability standards for hotel assets, and how progress in disclosure has reshaped finance.
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Forthcoming Events
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4 May (Paris) – Art & Climat
Join us for an exclusive “Art & Climat” evening at Salle Cortot (Paris), featuring a lecture by Professor Noël Amenc on the relationship between climate and human societies, followed by a concert by award-winning violinist Lora Markova. A unique event blending scientific insight and artistic excellence, open to the EDHEC community.
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17-18 June (London) – FT Climate and Impact Summit
EDHEC Climate Institute and Scientific Climate Ratings will be strongly represented with two keynotes and participation in a roundtable discussion. Bringing together policymakers, investors and industry leaders, the Summit will focus on “Investable Resilience” and the role of climate risk in shaping capital allocation, offering a key platform to engage on financial materiality and decision-grade climate insights.
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23 June (London) - EDHEC Climate Research Conference 2026 - Climate Risk and Business Resilience: From Science to Strategic Action
EDHEC Climate Institute will host its inaugural Climate Research Conference in London. The event will bring together academics, regulators, investors, and industry leaders to explore how science-based tools can transform the assessment and management of climate risks. Sessions will address advances in probabilistic scenario analysis, high-resolution data modelling, and the evaluation of climate resilience strategies across sectors.
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