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GPT Climate Disclosure Statement 2020 – TCFD. GPT is a listed property group ranked in the top 5% of real estate companies in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment. They engaged XDI to assess climate risk to key parts of the property portfolio with a focus on adaptation interventions to ensure fit for purpose resilience over the asset’s lifetime. XDI worked closely with the GPT engineering team to address protection specifications for cyclone debris, roof drainage for increased monsoonal rainfall and insulation requirements to cope with increased temperatures and reduce aircon loads in Australia’s tropical north
Access the full statement – GPT Climate Disclosure Statement 2020
XDI’s analysis has been used in the NSW Treasury’s Technical Research Paper: An Indicative Assessment of Four Key Areas of Climate Risk. Along with 5 other technical papers, this analysis will be incorporated into NSW Treasury’s 2021 Intergenerational Report to be released later this year. The 2021 Intergenerational Report will inform policy advice addressing current and structural challenges that will impact NSW’s future economic growth and fiscal sustainability.
Access the full report – An indicative assessment of four key areas of climate risk for the 2021 NSW
Intergenerational Report
XDI recognised as a global provider of climate physical risk analysis within The Climate Risk Landscape: Mapping Climate-related Financial Risk Assessment Methodologies released by UN Environment Programme-Finance Initiative in February 2021.
Learn more about The Climate Risk Landscape Report
XDI named as one of the top 5 most significant providers within the critically emerging market for climate risk analytics within The Forrester New Wave: Climate Risk Analytics Report.
Learn more about the Forrester Report
Climate Change Risks to Australia’s Built Environment: A Second Pass Assessment, analyses climate risk to all 544 local government areas in Australia, assessing five hazards impacts to 15 million addresses. The report names the top ten municipalities most in need of climate change adaptation according to four key indicators including annual average losses from damage and number of “High Risk Properties”, determined in line with US Federal Emergency Management Agency classifications.
Click here to view the Executive Summary
Click here to view the Full Report
Featured News
Climate science on trial
Quantified health impacts of climate change accepted as evidence in Australia's Federal Court Dr Karl Mallon provided expert witness in a landmark court case that ruled the Federal
Media
Bushfires to have longer impact than thought?
Longer term implications for the insurance industry following catastrophic bush fire season
Storms and Bushfires hit Suncorp’s profits
More on the insurance industry following forest fire and floods back to back in Australia’s 2020 summer season
Deadly Australia Fires Spur Calls to Mitigate Disaster Risk
Dr Karl Mallon in a Bloomberg article covering the insurance fall out after disastrous forest fire season in Australia
“Climate change costs to hit these Australian regions hardest”
24/10/19 AFR coverage of XDI’s report released today “Climate Change Risk to Australia’s Built Environment – A Second Pass assessment”
ABC “The Rise of Red Zones of Risk”
This ABC multi media article presents Climate Risk Engines data in a dynamic format, enabling public engagement with the information presented in XDI’s report Climate
XDI and Baringa announce collaboration to provide most comprehensive corporate climate risk reporting
MEDIA RELEASE: NEW YORK CITY, September 25, 2019 – XDI and Baringa Partners, the global consultancy with market-leading expertise in energy and financial services risk,
Blog: How climate risk models incorporate flood data to put a price on future climate risk
Dr Karl Mallon, Director of Climate Risk Pty Ltd, explains how climate risk models incorporate flood data like JBA’s to put a price on future
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