The Data Revolution in Climate Risk: Why Banks Need Asset-Based Insights

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Traditional climate risk assessments rely on incomplete corporate reporting. Alex Clark of Asset Impact explains how asset-based data offers financial institutions a transparent, consistent, and forward-looking approach to managing climate risk - tracking emissions from the ground up.

Mar 28, 2025

Alex Clark, Research Director, Asset Impact

Mark Norman, Head of Content, Center for Financial Professionals

Tags: ESG and Climate Risk

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Financial institutions struggle with incomplete and inconsistent corporate climate disclosures. Alex Clark of Asset Impact introduces asset-based company data, a bottom-up approach that maps real-world assets to financial institutions, offering a transparent and globally consistent way to assess climate risks.

Unlike traditional reporting, this method links emissions directly to assets, ensuring financial analysts can make informed decisions based on complete, validated, and comparable data.

Asset-based data also enables scenario analysis, helping institutions measure transition risk more accurately and align investments with climate goals.

Alex Clark Bio

Biography coming soon

Mark Norman Bio

I'm a highly experienced internal communications, content marketing, editorial and media professional with a long career in content management, commercial media, journalism, copywriting, marketing, media relations, and contract printing. I have experience of managing and leading teams and projects within and for inherently dynamic and versatile organisations of all sizes, from large, complex, matrix organisations operating in volatile sectors that are subject to sudden change, to SMEs that derive market share and value through innovation and adaptability. Through copywriting, thought leadership articles, podcasting, media campaigns, as well as internal and digital marketing tools, I combine content strategy with the power of storytelling to help individuals, organisations and businesses develop, evolve and share their own brand stories internally and externally. With a background in senior leadership roles across print, broadcast and digital channels, I'm ideally suited to helping businesses approach their content, storytelling, internal communications, and tone of voice in a coherent, consistent and compelling way. My background includes extensive experience across internal comms, print, radio, television, web, social, digital marketing, training and out-of-home spaces, and my previous homes have included the BBC, national commercial radio, national and regional newspapers and a national charity.