Researchers from the universities of Zurich, Vienna and Utrecht have revealed significant flaws in current climate risk assessment techniques that could lead to a serious underestimation of climate-related financial losses for businesses and investors.<\/p>\n
A study by Stefan Battiston from the Department of Finance at the University of Zurich and his co-authors, published in\u00a0Nature Communications<\/i>\u00a0, identified critical gaps in the way climate-related risks to corporate assets are currently assessed\u00a0.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n Many current estimates of climate-physical climate risk rely on simplified and proxy data that do not accurately represent society's true exposure to risk. This can lead to a significant underestimation of climate-related losses, with serious implications for business investment planning, asset valuation and climate change adaptation efforts. (Melanie Nyfeler, University of Zurich, more at phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Researchers from the universities of Zurich, Vienna and Utrecht have uncovered significant flaws in current climate risk assessment techniques that could lead to serious underestimation of climate-related financial losses for businesses and investors. The study by Stefan Battiston from the Department of Finance at the University of Zurich and his co-authors, published in Nature Communications , identified critical flaws in the way in which [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}