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Climate Transition Risk

Reduce the uncertainty around low carbon transitions and optimize managing transition risks and opportunities with our proprietary transition risk data and industry-specialized consulting.

The transitions of economies, industries and organizations to low carbon are already triggering significant changes in economic activity, asset values and profitability across the world. These shifts mean both identifying and executing optimal choices on low carbon transitions are becoming increasingly complex.

When you face multiple potential transition pathways and increasing volatility, your success will depend on your ability to assess how each pathway and strategic choice could impact your business model and potential to deliver strategy. And when the drivers of transition risk are changing – from regulations, consumer and investor preferences to shifts in technology and policy – your resilience will also rely on regularly reviewing and updating your chosen transition pathway and disclosures.

To strengthen your resilience on the journey to a lower carbon economy, we help transform your transition risk stance from reactive to proactive by identifying, quantifying and managing your transition risks.

Identify climate transition risk

Identify your climate transition risks and how they’re amplifying your existing exposures with our industry-specific climate insight and enterprise risk management expertise.

What’s driving your transition risks and which of these are the most material? How do you compare against peers in your industry?

We work collaboratively with you to reveal the answers, evaluating the potential impacts on your business model by analyzing changing markets, consumer behaviors, policies and technological advancements.

We partner with you to identify and prioritize the transition risks specific to your industry, reviewing all the key value chains where you have transition risk exposure.

Quantify climate transition risk

Managing your transition risk effectively starts with putting credible and meaningful numbers against both your exposures and your options for mitigating risks and maximizing opportunities. Getting this right and avoiding underestimating your potential liabilities or losses means using robust quantification methods. We help you consider a breadth of factors that reflect emerging drivers of transition risks and opportunities in the sectors and markets where you operate.

We help you achieve a wider view of transition risk strategy by quantifying, where plausible, the impacts on future revenue, opex or capex across multiple transition risk scenarios.

Manage climate transition risk

Working closely with you, we integrate transition risk management strategies into your existing processes. We can also advise on how you can capitalize on the opportunities of the transition to a lower carbon economy. This analysis can support you in meeting increasingly complex disclosures requiring risk quantification, such as Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards. You can also use our analysis in the context of stress tests and other regulatory reporting requirements for banks and insurers.

How might you respond to transition? Will you diversify your business portfolio, explore new markets and technologies or take a new approach to financial strategy, such as transferring risk to equity and credit markets? We can recommend strategies to help you mitigate transition risks and protect against downsides. By de-risking your business, and demonstrating this to investors, you can help lower your cost of capital, increase your valuation and ensure your continued financial resilience.

Discover a smarter way to optimize climate transition risk. Get in touch.

How we help you optimize your transition risk management and transition plans

We go beyond carbon, because understanding the factors affecting your future cash flow requires a more granular approach than simply assessing carbon metrics. We carry out deeper, asset-level analyses to gauge the impacts on different business segments and their cumulative effects.

Our data-driven approach goes deeper, so you can understand specific impacts on different business segments and even individual assets. You can also zoom out and get a comprehensive view of all your transition risks and opportunities.

Our analysis is forward-looking and dynamic, based on projected discounted cash flows, making it decision-useful and aligned with your business strategy. To ensure the analysis you get is relevant, we refresh our framework regularly to account for market dynamics, technological changes and regulatory developments.

We think about the whole economy and the system-level changes across goods, services and commodities necessary to meet the decarbonization objectives of the Paris Agreement, using 500 proprietary sectoral models.

Climate transition risk management for asset owners and asset managers

We have targeted offerings for asset owners and asset managers to assess and manage the impact of transition risk, helping them: 

  • Manage the financial risks of the transition to a low carbon economy more effectively with access to our proprietary data and insights. Assess both upside and downside transition risks in your portfolio in comparison to its benchmark and reveal the key contributors to risk at both sector and individual holding level. WTW’s Portfolio Transition Risk Assessment goes beyond carbon-focused metrics to offer a sharper view of the financial risk and opportunities of climate transition on portfolios.
  • Manage the financial risks of climate transition and the impact on the value of investments more effectively with our proprietary climate transition indices and funds. The index leverages our proprietary analytical framework to assess the anticipated impact of a climate transition on company valuations through forward-looking, bottom-up analysis of individual companies. The funds, meanwhile, offer a simple, low-cost, indexation implementation to minimize climate transition risk and redistribute capital in support of the transition to a lower-carbon economy.

Why work with WTW to quantify and manage your transition risk?

For more than a decade we’ve worked with governments, central and development banks and corporates to develop innovative answers to the most complex questions on the impact of transition risks on future cashflows.

Expect to make more informed strategic decisions as you chart your path towards net zero, calling on transition risk data that’s already informing investment products against which investors are allocating billions of dollars.

Discover a smarter way to optimize climate transition risk. Get in touch.

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