Advancing Climate Intelligence

S&P Global has launched the S&P Global Climate Center of Excellence, aimed at enhancing long-term climate, environmental, and nature research. The center brings together top scientists and strategists to develop methodologies and collaborate across S&P Global divisions, including S&P Global Ratings and S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Driving Innovation

The new center will help tackle complex climate challenges, foster thought leadership, and build academic partnerships to advance research and innovation. It will also provide actionable intelligence to S&P Global’s customers, such as investors, banks, and companies, ensuring that climate solutions are grounded in robust science.

Its mission is to:

• Tackle complex methodological challenges in climate and environmental science to support long-term innovation.
• Support the next generation of science-driven thought leadership to provide intelligence to the market.
• Build external academic partnerships to inform cutting-edge research and innovation.
• Partner across S&P Global to leverage our in-house scientific and economic expertise and robust suite of data, analytics, insights and research to help drive transparency on climate and sustainability issues deemed critical by the markets.
• Cultivate learning opportunities for S&P Global employees to elevate science-based thinking on climate and sustainability issues throughout the company.

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Voices from S&P Global

Dr. Terence Thompson, Chief Science Officer, emphasized the mission: “To push the frontiers in climate research, S&P Global scientists are diving into some of the most complex data and modelling challenges in the physical and economic sciences.”

Thomas Yagel, Chief Operating and Product Officer for S&P Global Sustainable1, added: “Developing the most innovative climate risk data solutions requires collaboration across the industry… we are excited to partner with leading experts in the academic and scientific community to ensure our climate solutions are grounded in best-in-class science.”