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This website explores charts, maps and data of observed and projected climate variables for California. The tools show projections for two possible climate futures, one in which emissions peak around 2040 and then decline (RCP 4.5) and another in which emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century (RCP 8.5).

These guidelines set out the core principles for corporate governance which are deemed material by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) members. The principles include board oversight of material risks, long-term value creation and transparency.

This report provides the estimated return implications under the four climate scenarios and four climate risk factors, modelled over a 35 year time period, with commentary on the specific implications for OPTrust. The return estimates developed as part of this research apply at the total portfolio, asset class and industry sector levels.

The Protocol is a non-prescriptive decision-making framework which guides businesses through the process of identifying, measuring and valuing direct and indirect impacts and dependencies on natural capital, to inform business decision-making. This links with the physical risks companies may face with climate change.

Morphological analysis allows any number of dimensions to be retained when framing future conditions, and techniques within morphological analysis determine which combinations of those dimensions represent plausible futures. However, even a relatively low number of dimensions in future conditions can lead to hundreds or even thousands of plausible future scenarios. Creating highly diverse but conceivable visions of the future in which to explore decision-making, exploratory futures techniques rely on the selection of a small number of plausible scenarios from the larger set. In this paper we describe a new method for finding maximally diverse sets containing a small number of plausible scenarios from a multi-dimensional morphological analysis. It is based on a mathematical optimization of diversity that is robust to the uncertainty in the framing of future factors and states and in what stakeholders might consider diverse combinations of those factors and states. We also describe implementation of the method as a software tool and its performance in recent exploratory scenario development by CGIAR and partners for regional environmental change, food security and livelihoods.

Scenarios are widely used for long-term climate and energy analysis. However, in the great majority of studies with a handful of scenarios or scenario categories, both scenario developers and users capture only a subset of future uncertainties.

This report evaluates and benchmarks the quality and comprehensiveness of climate risk disclosures by insurance companies in response to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Climate Risk Disclosure Survey.

This paper shows how a leading Integrated Assessment Model can be used to estimate the impact of 21st century climate change on the present market value of global financial assets.

This report examines the systemic risk posed by a belated awareness about the importance of controlling emissions resulting in an abrupt implementation of quantity constraints on the use of carbon-intensive energy sources.

The King IV Code is designed to promote good corporate governance in South African companies. This includes the role and responsibilities of the Board of Directors, strategy, performance, reporting and stakeholder relationships.

This paper by IEA presents an outlook for the market share of electric vehicles driven by government policy, innovation, costs and infrastructure deployment, including the levels of electric vehicle deployment in leading transition scenarios.

This report summarizes and analyzes the disclosures made through the 2016 CDP information request. It is aimed at companies facing water risks and opportunities in relation to climate change, and investors seeking to better understand how water issues might impact their portfolios.