Climate Risk Reporting
Communications Services
Climate-related financial reporting of risks and opportunities is becoming a global requirement for large corporations. Effective climate risk reports include investor-grade financial disclosures with detailed information into climate-related risks and opportunities.
Relevant regulations
EU CSRD (ESRS E1)
California SB-261
IFRS S2-aligned regulations
Useful frameworks and standards
IFRS’s ISSB S2 Standard
TCFD
GHG Protocol
Transition Plan Taskforce
Climate Risk is Business Risk
People are identifying the ways climate risks directly transmit onto balance sheets and create long-term economic challenges for business liquidity, creditworthiness, and valuation.
This is why global central banking institutions and financial regulators around the world are requiring financial institutions to compile their investment risks by collecting high-quality data from invested firms.
Scenario analysis and stress testing are key tools for establishing a broader transparency into these critical long-term risks.
First Step to Reporting: Climate risk assessment
Climate risk assessments are a critical reporting input. A detailed qualitative and quantitative assessment, typically using scenario analysis for multiple warming scenarios, identifies material financial effects of climate change in the short, medium and long-term.
Assessments should include physical acute and chronic climate-related risks; transition-related policy, technology, market, reputation and legal risks; and opportunities. The climate risk assessment not only identifies the drivers of relevant risks, but also prioritizes the most material risks by financial impact. This requires quantifying the potential for risk drivers to transmit onto the balance sheet.
Upon completion of a climate risk assessment, companies typically integrate their findings in the following ways in their organizations to meet reporting standards’ requirements:
governance policies and oversight
strategy including climate transition and resilience plans
risk assessment approaches, financial impacts and integration into strategic risk management frameworks
metrics and targets
Leveling up climate risk reports
Climate risk reports can contain a lot of detailed information, so presenting it with a clear, well-crafted strategic perspective is important for creating an impactful report. This helps to highlight the most decision-useful information.
Financial and regulatory report users should be able to easily locate information that could affect their decisions. This makes the organization of a climate-risk report a critical consideration. I support clients by front-loading the report preparation process to fully understand the available documentation and information prior to developing the content outline and infographic strategy.
In addition, climate risk reports are not static. They gesture towards continuous improvement areas and key next steps a company plans to take. Companies often choose to highlight relevant information such as climate transition plans, resilience plans and financing initiatives. I integrate this information into reports with helpful cues to the reader to set their expectations towards future improvement.
Work with an Expert in Climate Risk
I hold a Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR®) certificate, which covers climate risk transmission, management, reporting, scenario analysis, and other key topics relevant to today’s evolving world of climate-related risk and opportunity analyses.
I received scores in the highest quartile for five of the seven subjects tested. One of the reasons I achieved such high scores was my prior work with a climate risk platform on strategic communications. The platform was developed by four Nobel Prize winning climate scientists and was a leader in identifying resilience strategies among municipalities and balancing social and environmental risks.
In 2026, I’m deepening my expertise by pursuing further professional development in this field. I expect to earn a certificate in climate risk management and another in governance, risk and compliance from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management by the end of the year.
This subject matter expertise serves me well in my reporting, as I understand exactly what investors and regulators are looking for within a climate risk report.
My Climate Risk Reporting approach
Alignment with reporting regulations, standards and frameworks is critical for compliance focused climate risk and opportunity reports. I help companies make the most strategic use of their reporting process. Reports are well-crafted to communicate to internal and external stakeholders by prioritizing decision-useful information and clear presentation formats.
I draft disclosures reflecting a company's current level of maturity with regards to its management of physical and transition risks and integrate their brand voice and identity. By reviewing areas where assessments and the related strategic analysis or other gaps could be improved for better reporting in a cycle of continuous improvement, I offer additional support to clients.
Climate risk reporting projects
SB-261 aligned report for a US-based data center firm
SB-261 aligned report for a US-based cold chain firm
SB-261 aligned report for US-based food services firm
SB-261 aligned report for a US-based logistics firm
CSRD aligned report for a EU-based commercial real estate firm
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