The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeFinance and EconomicsDepartment of Financial Markets and Investment
Physical and transition risk, scenario analysis, disclosure, nature dependencies and insurability
Climate and nature financial risk covers how physical and transition climate risk and nature-related risk reach financial institutions and portfolios, and how they are assessed and disclosed.
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Twin figures for Houston and the Ship Channel, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
For Climate and nature financial risk: the faculty's twin of Houston on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the plants by capacity, the industrial points by kind and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
The discipline teaches physical risk assessment on asset locations, as the Ship Channel plants and sites at their ground elevations under the surface-water detection and built-up layers of the twin show, transition risk and financed emissions, climate scenario analysis with the Network for Greening the Financial System's scenario families (drawn on the Academy only as labelled design scenarios until their row admits), disclosure under IFRS S2 carrying forward the TCFD recommendations and nature-related disclosure under the TNFD recommendations (2023), nature dependencies and impacts, adaptation and insurability, transition plans, and the data and model gaps that limit every measurement. A graduate can assess a portfolio's physical risk from asset locations and a hazard layer with its estimates labelled, run a transition scenario through a sector's earnings, write a disclosure that states its data gaps, and read an insurability question from a loss curve.
This area covers how physical and transition climate risk and nature-related risk reach financial institutions and portfolios, and how they are assessed and disclosed. It is taught in the department of Financial Markets and Investment, Faculty of Finance and Economics, through 2 courses with it as primary discipline and 1 more that also teach it.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Nature-related risk assessment and disclosure; Nature as systemic financial risk.
Recent developments in climate and nature financial risk, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
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From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
No course with this primary discipline is open yet; these are planned, so you can prepare with the courses also taught here.
Courses with this primary discipline0 open, 2 in preparation
These courses count in their own primary discipline and also teach this one; they do not count towards its achievement as primary courses.
Also taught here1 courses that count in another discipline
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| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 2 |
| Trigger lab | Set forecast thresholds, pre-agreed actions and messages | 1 |
The catalogue lists each course with its outcomes, labs, hours and level.