Summary
Physical risk doesn’t discriminate and neither should your data.
Across every region and sector, organizations are being challenged to answer the same question: Where is our real physical climate exposure, and what do we do about it? Too often, the answer is built on incomplete visibility: risk mapped to corporate headquarters, limited coverage of subsidiaries, or portfolio-level approaches that can’t pinpoint where risks concentrate at the asset level.
At the same time, the climate is evolving faster than most strategies can keep pace. The cost of inaction is no longer theoretical, it’s measurable in operational disruptions, supply chain breakdowns, stranded assets, and tougher questions from regulators and boards.
In this webinar, specialists from S&P Global Energy Horizons will share how S&P Global Physical Risk datasets help decision-makers move beyond generalized risk narratives to actionable resilience and adaptation planning, powered by granular, asset-level and ownership intelligence across more than 7 million assets spanning critical sectors, mapped through the full corporate hierarchy (who owns/operates what, and where).
You’ll learn how high-resolution data is essential not just for measuring physical climate risk, but for informing decisions helping you:
- Build adaptation plans that target the right facilities, networks, and suppliers (not just the “average” risk story)
- Reveal hidden exposures that sit in subsidiaries and operating entities
- Get ahead of market and climate risk with clearer prioritization for capex, continuity planning, and investment decisions
Register for our upcoming webinar to gain an end-to-end view of physical climate risk with essential intelligence and get ready to go granular.
Speakers
S&P Global Energy
Esther Whieldon
Senior Writer, Sustainable1
Esther Whieldon is a Senior Writer on the S&P Global Horizons Thought Leadership Team and co-host of the S&P Global podcast ESG Insider. Esther has worked at S&P Global for 14 years and was previously a Senior Reporter in the S&P Global Market Intelligence newsroom where she wrote about climate change, ESG and energy issues. Prior, Esther worked two years as a reporter at Politico and spent several years before that in the S&P Global Platts energy newsroom in Washington, D.C. Esther earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, Maryland.
S&P Global Energy
Kuntal Singh
Lead, Climate Physical Risk, Sustainable1
Lead, Climate Physical Risk
S&P Global Energy
Sheila Oviedo
Head of Climate Risk Products, Sustainable1
Head of Climate Risk Products
S&P Global Energy
Tim Hall, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, The Climate Center of Excellence, Sustainable1
Tim's work focuses on developing physical hazard models related to extreme weather and climate. Prior to S&P Global, Hall was a staff scientist for 20 years at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he worked in climate change research.
Tim's work focuses on developing physical hazard models related to extreme weather and climate. Prior to S&P Global, Hall was a staff scientist for 20 years at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he worked in climate change research. Hall has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and was a lead author on the 2017 National Climate Assessment Report. As part of his research, Hall developed a tropical cyclone hazard model, which Horizons now uses to assess the climate evolution of hurricane hazard. He also served as consultant to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and several risk modeling companies, reinsurers, and ILS investors.
Tim holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University