ISS STOXX Launches Real Assets Climate Solutions Suite
The tools aim to help investors understand climate risks within their portfolios.
ISS Sustainability Solutions, a unit of ISS STOXX, launched a suite of tools to help investors understand the impacts of climate change on their real assets investments.
ISS STOXX is also the parent company of PLANADVISER.
The tools will help institutional clients identify climate-related risks using geospatial artificial intelligence climate models. The tools are designed to help investors analyze their exposures to climate risks such as floods, sea level rise, wildfires, heatwaves, cyclones and drought.
According to the announcement, these tools are built to help investors assess the risk of structural damage and business interruption to their real asset investments. It will also help investors analyze carbon impact at the portfolio level across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
“Physical and transition risks from climate change are accelerating and are a material financial consideration for investors, banks and insurers,” said Till Jung, head of ISS STOXX’s sustainability business, in a statement.