Green Assets
The Green Assets research programme aims to quantify the climate-related risk for different types of assets (infrastructure, real estate and listed companies) for investors worldwide. It leverages science-based metrics to assess sustainability risks and impacts, empowering clients to report and benchmark investments effectively.
The Green Assets Project is a research initiative by the EDHEC Climate Institute, dedicated to developing innovative climate research. It integrates key research pillars—transition risk, physical risk, climate scenarios and climate resilience and decarbonation technologies—alongside interdisciplinary methods such as climate data whether it is climate change numerical simulations or satellite data, spatial data analysis, sentiment analytics as well as macro- and microeconomics, to provide a comprehensive assessment of an investment’s overall climate risk in financial terms.
Each analysis is conducted at the asset level and can be aggregated to provide a comprehensive portfolio view under various climate scenario outlooks, with adjustments for resilience measures. This robust and granular approach has been applied to infrastructure assets and is being expanded to encompass different asset classes such as real estate and listed companies.
The EDHEC Climate Institute gratefully acknowledges the support that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has provided to its green infrastructure research.
Key publications
- Computing Extreme Climate Value for Infrastructure Investments: Asset Pricing Applied to NGFS Phase 4 and Oxford Economics Scenarios
- Highway to Hell: Climate change will cost hundreds of billions to investors in infrastructure
- It’s getting physical: Some investors in infrastructure could lose more than half of their portfolio to physical climate risks by 2050
- Carbon Footprints and Financial Performance of Transport Infrastructures: The Case of Airports
The experts
Green Infra Team
- Anthony Schrapffer, Scientific Director
- Bertrand Jayles, Senior Sustainability Data Scientist
- Fabien Nugier, Senior Research Engineer
- Qinyu Goh, Sustainability Data Scientist
- Jeanette Orminski, Senior ESG & Sustainability Researcher
Green Corporate Team
- Thomas Lorans, Senior Research Engineer
- Julien Priol, Climate & Quant Researcher
About EDHEC
Operating from campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, EDHEC is one of the world’s top 15 business schools. Fully international and directly connected to the business world, EDHEC commands a strong reputation for research excellence and the ability to train entrepreneurs and managers capable of breaking new ground. EDHEC functions as a genuine laboratory of ideas and produces innovative solutions valued by businesses. The School’s teaching is inspired by its research work and a focus on “learning by doing”, all with the aim of equipping people with the skills to succeed in business.
