ISS Sustainability Solutions, the sustainable investment arm of ISS STOXX, has launched a new integrated suite of Real Asset Climate Solutions to help investors assess and mitigate the financial impacts of climate change on their portfolios.
The comprehensive platform combines ISS STOXX’s physical risk, carbon footprint, and scenario alignment analyses with advanced geospatial, asset-level data to support more informed decision-making and the development of climate-resilient investment strategies.
Designed for institutional investors, banks, insurers, and reinsurers, the solutions cater to a wide range of applications, including risk management, regulatory compliance, stewardship engagement, due diligence, and underwriting. Users can access the tools through secure file transfer, API, or a web-based analytics dashboard for seamless integration into existing systems.
The launch follows ISS STOXX’s acquisition of Sust Global, whose geospatial-AI technology now powers the platform’s Geospatial Asset Analytics. The system enables investors to quantify physical climate risks—such as floods, wildfires, heatwaves, sea level rise, cyclones, and droughts—based on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios SSP2–4.5 and SSP5–8.5, with global coverage and projections up to 2100. It also assesses potential structural damage and business interruption risks using detailed hazard, exposure, and vulnerability data.
Investors can upload their own real-asset portfolios or analyse equity and debt issuer holdings using the ISS STOXX Geospatial Asset Database, a proprietary dataset of verified geolocation and site-level intelligence that identifies precise risk exposure across global assets.
In addition, the suite features a Carbon Footprinting tool that estimates Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, including financed emissions and weighted average carbon intensity, allowing users to assess their portfolio’s carbon impact. A Scenario Alignment module provides forward-looking analysis comparing asset-level emissions trajectories against regional and sector-specific decarbonisation pathways, generating an Implied Temperature Rise metric to evaluate progress toward net-zero goals.
“Physical and transition risks from climate change are accelerating and are a material financial consideration for investors, banks, and insurers,” said Till Jung, Head of Sustainability Business at ISS STOXX. “As a leading provider of climate research, data, and analytics, we are pleased to launch our integrated suite of Real Asset Climate Solutions to help financial market participants better identify and mitigate climate risks.”
