Climate risk: How to assess exposure and build resilient energy infrastructure
Understand how physical climate risks are reshaping business performance, and learn how to assess your exposure, quantify vulnerabilities, and strengthen the resilience of your assets and operations.
Climate change is a material business risk. Rising temperatures, shifting weather patterns and more frequent extremes are already affecting infrastructure, supply chains and financial performance. With global temperatures above 1.5°C versus pre-industrial levels, these developments are expected to intensify, making it essential for companies to integrate climate risk into their decision-making processes.
For asset owners, operators and investors, the implications are increasingly tangible as physical climate risks can damage infrastructure, disrupt operations and reduce productivity. Beyond these direct impacts, climate change is also altering the underlying assumptions on which many business models rely. DNV is helping customers understand the implications of this on their asset performance, asset lifecycles and supply chains.
In recent engagements with Boralex, DNV has used climate projections to quantify how evolving wind and solar resources could affect long-term energy yield across portfolios. Historical weather data alone can understate uncertainty; scenario-based analysis supports more robust planning.
Energy yield is a key metric underpinning revenues and asset value. However, in a changing climate, outcomes depend not only on average resource conditions but about how assets withstand evolving operating environments, with historical assumptions on component performance no longer being valid. This introduces less visible effects – faster degradation, logistics constraints and supply chain disruption – which can cut availability and increase O&M spend, often reflected in maintenance costs, insurance premiums and residual risk.
Investment expectations are rising too. Lenders, investors and insurers increasingly require forward-looking assessments for due diligence, define coverage conditions and ensure long-term asset viability. Quantifying exposure, and demonstrating resilience, is becoming a condition for bankability and access to capital.
This means understanding climate hazards, pinpointing vulnerabilities across assets and supply chains, and translating impacts into financial terms, now essential to protect resilience and competitiveness.
Why you should attend this webinar
This session will provide a practical, business-oriented overview of how organizations can assess physical climate risks and translate them into actionable strategies.
Whether you are responsible for asset management, investment decisions, risk management, sustainability strategy or infrastructure planning, this webinar will help you translate climate risk into concrete business actions.
You will learn:
- How to identify and quantify exposure to key climate hazards across assets, portfolios and supply chains
- How to move from historical data to forward-looking climate scenarios, and integrate uncertainty into energy yield and financial assumptions
- How climate risks translate into financial impacts, including operating costs, insurance and asset valuation
- How climate risk assessments are driven by both mandatory requirements and voluntary frameworks, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
- How these requirements are increasingly linked to bankability, investor due diligence and access to financing and national funding schemes
About the DNV speakers
Moderator: Giulia Giannelli, Team Leader ESG & Sustainability Risk – Southern EU.
Mark Fisher, Senior Principal Consultant, Climate Team. Mark is an engineer with 30 years of global experience in the energy sector in asset operations and integrity, risk management and sustainability. Mark’s current role is to lead DNV’s approach to physical climate risk and its data analytics platform, Climatics.
Circe Triviño, Principal Engineer, Head of Energy Analytics Wind Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa and LATAM. Circe has over 20 years of experience in wind energy. She supports clients on wind, solar and hybrid projects, operational performance analysis, and methods that strengthen pre-construction energy assessment methodologies.
Luca Lisciotto, Senior ESG Consultant/Climate Risk Expert. Luca is an Environmental Scientist with seven years of experience in the energy sector, focusing on environment, sustainability and physical climate risk assessments. He currently supports clients across the SEMELA region by delivering robust climate risk solutions to meet complex regulatory and engineering challenges.