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The TEEBAgriFood study is designed to (1) provide a comprehensive economic evaluation of the eco-agri-food systems’ complex, and (2) demonstrate that the economic environment in which farmers operate is distorted by significant externalities, both negative and positive, and a lack of awareness of dependency on natural, social, human and produced capitals.

Baringa and E3 offer insights and opinions on the risks and opportunities of climate change, and how these should inform strategic decision making. In this Viewpoint, they discuss the financial system implications of the landmark Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), established in 2015 by the G20’s Financial Stability Board.

This guidance document is published by WRI and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation. Indian businesses have reported a need for targeted guidance on how to implement carbon pricing in the Indian context. To address this challenge, this primer provides a seven-step approach for developing and implementing an internal carbon pricing scheme.

The Climate Web is a comprehensive knowledge management system comprehensively covering climate risk and opportunity topics, including scenario planning.

This guide explores the landscape of best practice by asset owners, identifies common barriers, and presents a framework of ten building blocks for all asset owners, wherever they are on the road to climate leadership.

This report explores the connection between climate hazards and financial risks in Australia and shares examples of corporate adaptation and investor engagement to build resilience.

This piece of research was published by PRI and global law firm Baker McKenzie as part of a series of country reviews examining how these voluntary recommendations integrate into existing regulation and soft law in specific markets. This paper looks at Japan.

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) is actively engaging with Canadian businesses and investors to support the implementation of the TCFD recommendations. Watch this overview video to learn more about the TCFD initiative and understand the roles for CFOs and CPAs in supporting climate-related financial risk disclosures.

This primer builds on existing models and literature to suggest ideas and provide tools as to how scenario analysis could be performed and integrated into company valuations and responsible investment strategies. This is the first in a series of five reports focused on the methodological and conceptual underpinnings of scenario analysis. Read all reports in this series at http://co-firm.com/en/publikationen/.

This report aims to illustrate how scenario-based financial risk analysis can be performed in the utilities sector and if and how it can be relevant to company analysis and, specifically, valuation. This is the second in a series of five reports. Read all reports in this series at http://co-firm.com/en/publikationen/.

Which mechanisms explain the damage that has been caused to the planet? On what basis can businesses make strategic decisions in a rapidly changing world? How can scenario-based analysis be a powerful tool in helping businesses to perform well in the medium and long term? The deterioration of the planet challenges the limits of a societal model built around the mass energy consumption responsible for global warming. Making the right strategic decisions in a rapidly changing world that finds itself under duress is a real challenge for decision-makers. Scenario-based analysis and physical flow approach is a powerful tool that can help them adapt to this new state of play, and it is this approach that this report introduces.

WRI released a new tool that allows exploration of economic and emissions scenarios to identify opportunities to deliver on climate goals. It includes a number of models from IPCC, private sector, and country-specific providers along with underlying scenarios and assumptions.