Climate Resilience and Financial Adaptation

Climate Resilience and Financial Adaptation

Instructors: Catherine Tubb PhD

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

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6 hours to complete

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Distinguish mitigation, adaptation, and resilience strategies, and explain how each addresses a different part of the climate-risk chain.
Apply the ClimaTech framework to identify and prioritise relevant climate strategies for infrastructure and real assets.
Assess how climate action affects financial performance through avoided losses, operational benefits, cash flows, IRR, NAV, and asset value.

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There are 5 modules in this course

This course helps learners move from climate-risk awareness to climate-resilience action. It explains why climate risk is different from traditional financial risks, why infrastructure and real assets are especially exposed, and why existing climate-risk frameworks often stop short of telling investors and asset owners what to do next.

Learners will examine the three core levers of climate action: mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. The course shows how these levers differ, how they complement each other, and how they can be deployed at asset level to reduce emissions, limit physical damage, maintain service continuity, and improve financial outcomes. The course introduces the ClimaTech framework, a structured approach for identifying, comparing, and prioritising climate transition, adaptation, and resilience strategies. Learners will apply this logic to real asset-level decisions, including infrastructure sectors such as transport, data infrastructure, energy, water, and social infrastructure.

Today, we have more climate data, more scenarios, and more disclosure frameworks than ever before. But knowing that an asset is exposed does not automatically tell us what to do, which intervention to choose, or how to prioritise capital. These assets are often long-lived, capital-intensive, and fixed in location. That means they remain exposed to changing climate conditions over decades, and cannot easily be moved or redesigned. Climate risk is long-term, systemic, uncertain, and connected to both physical systems and economic systems.

What's included

6 videos4 readings1 assignment

6 videosTotal 23 minutes

CSC5.1a From Climate Risk to Action2 minutes
CSC5.1b Climate Risk Amplifies Every Other Pressure4 minutes
CSC5.1c The TCFD Framework: Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures Framework3 minutes
CSC5.1d Why Does Climate Risk Hit Infrastructure So Hard? 5 minutes
CSC5.1e The Toolkit for Measuring Climate Risk4 minutes
CSC5.1f The Adaptation Finance Gap5 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Introduction to Module 110 minutes
New Reading10 minutes
Climate change will cost hundreds of billions to investors in infrastructure10 minutes
What's next?10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 15 minutes

Quiz - Module 115 minutes

The gap between knowing and doing is exactly what you will do in this module. That's why it was called: Strategic Levers for Climate Action.

What's included

2 videos1 reading1 assignment

In the module one and two, we established why climate risk demands action, and we met the three strategic levers: mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. But that leaves an obvious problem. Once you accept that an asset is exposed — and you know that mitigation, adaptation, and resilience are all on the table — you are still left with a long list of things you could do. So the question becomes: how do you choose? How do you move from a menu of options to a decision you can actually defend?

What's included

4 videos2 readings

What's included

2 videos3 readings

What's included

1 video1 reading2 assignments

Instructors

Catherine Tubb PhD

EDHEC Business School

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Nishtha Manocha PhD

EDHEC Business School

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