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This toolkit is intended to assist companies in understanding what types of data and information providers are available in undertaking physical climate risk assessment. This toolkit is primarily focused on U.S.-based information and features publicly available resources drawn from federal and academic sources. Several tools from private organizations that are well-used by both private and public stakeholders are also included. C2ES does not necessarily endorse the proprietary, private resources that incorporate publicly available government-provided data listed under the “Organizations and Providers” tab. This tool serves to generally identify further analysis resources for companies.

Methodology

This toolkit was assembled from web-searches of publicly available resources in 2022 and with feedback from companies during our 2021 project examining how they measure and assess their climate-related risks.

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• current practices companies are using to conduct climate-related financial analysis
• honest insights related to the challenges companies are facing, and how they are working to overcome the challenges
• views on future developments regarding climate risk and opportunity analysis, and keys to success
• case studies from specific Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC) members.

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This webinar examines how different companies and organizations are assessing their forward-looking physical risks from a changing climate and developing resources to assist companies and investors.

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In this webinar, TCFD Secretariat and global mining company BHP will detail approaches to transition risks and opportunities, especially considering policy developments and investor commitments in support of a net-zero, resilient future.

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Join industry leaders from major sectors such as finance, aviation, and utility for a discussion around how they are working to transform their industries and tackle challenges as they work to address climate change. Panelists will discuss their current progress toward their climate commitments and what it will take to achieve their ambitious goals.

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In this webinar, we will hear from companies investing in ways to reduce carbon footprints of materials with high embodied GHG emissions, and how businesses who are themselves end customers, leverage procurement and supplier engagement to reduce upstream GHG emissions. Companies will discuss how federal procurement specifically can unlock greater potential for investment. We will also hear from this Administration on its focus on reducing emissions from the built environment.

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Getting that new and upgraded infrastructure built can be very challenging, however, particularly for interregional transmission. Transmission projects can face significant planning and permitting hurdles and therefore, if they manage to clear the hurdles at all, can take more than a decade to deploy.  There are potential pathways, though, to smooth and speed deployment. Approaches such as competitive renewable energy zones and undergrounding and co-locating transmission in existing rights-of-way could be models for making progress in deploying interregional transmission. Siting new non-emitting centralized generation plants near or at the same location as existing or retiring plants can minimize the need for new transmission infrastructure, as can deploying smaller, more distributed power generation resources that are sited closer to demand and within local lower-voltage distribution networks. Energy storage is also emerging as a non-wires alternative to upgrading substations and building new transmission lines, though long-duration storage technologies need to be further developed. Policies and reforms must reduce the need for transmission, help get transmission built, and strengthen transmission connections between regional grids.

To lessen the amount of transmission needed, policymakers should adopt policies that:

• maintain existing firm non-emitting generation for as long as possible
• advance the production and supply of low-carbon fuels to replace emitting fuels in existing firm generation
• invest in innovation to help develop and deploy low-cost, flexible, firm low-carbon generation technologies that are currently at a more nascent stage
• incentivize energy efficiency across sectors
• deploy incentives and implement programs to minimize increased peak demand due to electric vehicle charging
• increase support for public transportation systems and other measures to reduce the need for vehicle use
• increase support for and adoption of low-carbon alternative transportation fuels, particularly for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles
• advance deployment of distributed energy generation resources
• Require utilities to evaluate non-wires alternatives such as energy storage in addition to new transmission line proposals
• invest in energy storage research, development, demonstration, and deployment, including on long-term storage options.

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