Climate change scenarios and stress testing

Evaluate climate change risks and opportunities

Regulators, investors, and banks around the world are accelerating their efforts to evaluate and strengthen the resilience of financial systems to climate change and related policy actions. Banks and their supervisors are exploring physical and transition risks under various climate stress test or exploratory scenario exercises and investors are keen to quantify the impact on their portfolios and position themselves to capture opportunities under different climate change scenarios.

We support institutions’ stress testing and strategic decision making with a set of climate change scenarios. These scenarios describe how different sets of stakeholders will shape policies and actions as we move towards a future with lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Understand the economic factors of climate change risks A methodology for better decisions in the age of energy transition

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Regulatory climate stress scenario expansion

Our economist and modeling teams support financial institutions who are undertaking regulatory climate stress test or scenario analyses with modeling support and long-term projections of industry and country specific economic and financial variables. We construct and expand scenarios which are consistent with the assumptions provided by regulators such as the commonly referred scenarios from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).

Our economist and modeling teams leverage award-winning integrated models to offer geographical, industry level and macro-financial variable expansion services for regulatory climate stress test or exploratory exercises.

Economic & climate risk interactions

Numerous touch points between physical and transition risk factors and economic/financial performance

Proprietary climate scenarios

To assist institutions with managing risks effectively and identifying opportunities, we also prepare plausible and integrated climate scenarios with a 30-year horizon including two net zero greenhouse (GHG) emissions cases:

Inflections scenario, our base case, includes pivotal shifts in social, policy, and market forces that drive fundamental change in energy markets.

Discord scenario imagines a dysfunctional world in which the political turmoil of 2020 returns after a short rebound, hampering economic growth and creating investment uncertainty and inertia. Some trends toward decarbonization continue, but many fade away.

Green rules scenario outlines a super-charged reaction following the pandemic and climate-related disasters where populations demand strong government action and cooperation to provide security around health and physical environment. The Green Rules scenario has two further modes that assume achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and work backwards from there:

Accelerated Carbon Capture and Sequestration (ACCS) includes widespread use of CCS to offset emissions from energy and hard-to-abate industrial sectors.
Multitech Mitigation (MTM) includes only a small amount of CCS, and instead relies on diversification of energy supply and extensive electrification of all sectors and economies based on renewable capacity.

Custom scenarios based on specific narratives around energy transition and climate change.

What’s available through our climate scenario services

Carefully crafted narratives, including comparative tables and charts.
Inputs into scenario design and narratives from our country and sector experts across industries such as energy and automotive.
Simulations that consider the dynamics of the energy transition and fuel substitution possibilities.
Unique set of assumptions for each scenario, which include economic factors, geopolitical environment, and focus to reduce carbon emissions to net zero through policies and carbon pricing, and consumer behavior, among others.
Data sets and detailed assessments of the scenario implications on financial markets, asset prices, and funding requirements at a country by country as well as regional and global levels.
Scenario solution files for clients who have access to our economic models.
Transparent model development and validation documentation.
Customer support and direct access to the practitioners who construct and model the scenarios.

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