Climate Center of Excellence
Advancing climate, environmental, and nature research
What is the S&P Global Climate Center of Excellence?
The S&P Global Climate Center of Excellence sits within S&P Global Horizons’s Research and Methodology Team. The center is home to a group of world-class scientists and strategists dedicated to addressing the frontiers of long-term climate, environmental, and nature research and methodology development.
The Climate Center of Excellence's mission is to:
- Tackle complex methodological challenges in climate and environmental science to support long-term innovation.
- Support the next generation of science-driven thought leadership to provide intelligence to the market.
- Build external academic partnerships to inform cutting-edge research and innovation.
- Partner across S&P Global to leverage our in-house scientific and economic expertise and robust suite of data, analytics, insights and research to help drive transparency on climate and sustainability issues deemed critical by the markets.
- Cultivate learning opportunities for S&P Global employees to elevate science-based thinking on climate and sustainability issues throughout the company.
We are dedicated to ensuring that S&P Global climate and sustainability solutions are grounded in best-in-class science, data, and methodologies, providing decision-useful intelligence to our customers and partners, including investors, banks, companies, and sustainability solution providers.
Research Focus Areas
Physical Climate Hazards
Earth Systems Tipping Points
Nonlinear Climate Impacts
Probabilistic Risk Modelling
Coupled Climate and Macroeconomic Modelling
Supply Chain Exposure
Including for nature-related impacts and dependencies and climate physical risk.
Scope 3 Emissions
Financial Impact Quantification
To Address Key Research Questions, we Collaborate Across S&P Global to Partner with Leading Experts
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To push the frontiers in climate research, S&P Global scientists are diving into some of the most complex data and modelling challenges in the physical and economic sciences. We are bridging multi-disciplinary gaps and global perspectives to enable advancements in our science-driven methodologies providing actionable information on climate-related risks and opportunities.
Dr. Terence Thompson
Chief Science Officer
In addition to licensing data for academic use, S&P Global Horizons welcomes partnerships with academia in cutting-edge areas of research. If you are interested in exploring a partnership, please reach out with the proposed partnership scope to the Climate Center of Excellence ClimateCOE@spglobal.com
Due to time and resource constraints, priority will be given to well-focused projects that provide a good fit with S&P Global Horizons’s long-term, multi-year research and innovation priorities.