JBA Risk Management &
S&P Global Energy Horizons Partnership
Delivering high-resolution flood intelligence for physical climate risk decisions.
S&P Global Energy Horizons and JBA Risk Management are collaborating to deliver enhanced high resolution climate change conditioned flood risk analytics to support resilience at the asset, operational and portfolio level. By combining JBA's global high-resolution historical flood data with S&P Global’s climate risk models, users can evaluate flood exposure under today’s conditions and future climate scenarios with sub-building level granularity.
This collaboration is designed to support better-informed decision-making across corporate risk management, lending, underwriting, investing, and supervision — helping market participants quantify and manage flood-related financial exposure while strengthening climate risk disclosure and stress testing.
Partnership highlights
Global flood intelligence at 30-meter resolution—mapped to real assets.
Climanomics, S&P Global’s physical climate risk analytics platform within Energy Horizons, now integrates climate change conditioned flood analytics, informed by JBA's historical fluvial and pluvial flood data, at 30-meter resolution across a range of return periods. The result is building-scale visibility into flood extent and depth, enabling more granular, asset-specific physical risk assessment for portfolios and single assets. This market leading flood analytics capability will also be integrated in S&P Global’s climate physical risk dataset product for financial institutions, covering over 73,000 public and private companies and available via S&P Capital IQ Pro and Xpressfeed.
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Stronger flood-driven financial risk insight for screening and due diligence
Stronger flood-driven financial risk insight for screening and due diligence
- Screen assets and locations faster: Identify flood-exposed properties, facilities, and infrastructure to support acquisition, divestment, and site selection decisions.
- Improve forward-looking analysis: Compare flood exposure across current and multiple climate-change scenarios to understand how risk may evolve over time.
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More precise portfolio risk analysis—down to the property level
More precise portfolio risk analysis—down to the property level
- Move beyond broad regional averages to property- and asset-level flood hazard assessment.
- Support portfolio aggregation, concentration analysis, and hotspot identification using consistent flood hazard data across geographies.
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Better vulnerability and adaptation planning
Better vulnerability and adaptation planning
- Target resilience investments: Use flood depth and extent detail to prioritize adaptation and engineering measures for the assets and infrastructure segments that matter most.
- Strengthen risk governance: Provide clearer evidence for internal risk committees and external stakeholders when documenting physical risk drivers and mitigants.
- Understand dependencies: Identify assets that are protected by municipal flood defences which may not be sufficient to meet future climate change driven flood risks, to inform medium term resilience planning.
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Regulatory and disclosure readiness for a changing risk landscape
Regulatory and disclosure readiness for a changing risk landscape
- Support regulatory climate stress testing: Enhance defensibility of flood assumptions used in scenario analysis and supervisory exercises by leveraging third-party hazard science and consistent, repeatable analytics.
- Enable more decision-useful disclosure: Improve transparency on flood and physical climate risk exposure—supporting financial stability objectives and the growing demand for comparable climate risk reporting.
By combining S&P Global’s physical climate risk analytics with JBA’s high resolution flood maps, Climanomics delivers more granular flood insight to help lenders, insurers, asset owners, investors, and regulators better anticipate flood impacts, manage exposures, and strengthen resilience strategies.