Videos and Webinars
Compound Weather Extreme Events and their Impacts
First introduced by the IPCC in 2012, compound weather events refer to combinations of multiple climate drivers and hazards that interact to create amplified societal and environmental risks. Unlike isolated extreme events, these overlapping phenomena involve a...
Managing Climate Adaptation: Meeting the Challenge of a Warming World for Businesses
As the era of climate action shifts from commitment to implementation, businesses face mounting pressure to address climate adaptation and mitigation. The climate commitments made in the 2016 Paris Agreement aimed to limit global warming to below 2°C. Yet, recent...
“How to Develop a Biodiversity Strategy?”, the TNFD Practical Guide
Taking nature into account is now a strategic necessity for businesses and financial institutions. The World Economic Forum (WEF) points out that almost half the world's GDP (44,000 billion dollars) depends on biodiversity, which is rapidly deteriorating. According to...
Decarbonizing your portfolio as a Private Equity investment fund
The decarbonization journey in private equity brings specific challenges and opportunities. LPs increasingly demand robust, transparent carbon metrics reporting, pushing GPs to gather accurate, consistent data from portfolio companies – often small firms without...
Regenerative Agriculture: Lessons Learnt from our Pioneering Investment Strategy
As founding partners, Tikehau Capital, Unilever, and AXA joined forces to champion the scaling of regenerative agriculture through a private equity impact strategy. Each has committed €100M to the initiative. Since its inception, the strategy has expanded its...
Thanks to her in-depth knowledge of sustainable finance and ESG data platforms, Marie-Anne Vincent makes a valuable contribution to AXA Climate, helping financial players to take climate and biodiversity risks into account when managing their investment portfolios. At...
Essential Guide to CSRD: Comprehensive insights on climate and biodiversity risk assessment
Climate change is having a profound impact on both individuals and businesses. In 2022, natural disasters such as floods, wildfires, and heatwaves caused an estimated $275 billion in global economic losses. As a result, evaluating these financial risks has become a...
AXA Climate launches new Altitude platform to help businesses and industry adapt to climate change
AXA Climate announces the official launch of new Altitude platform for businesses, an innovative platform designed to measure the impact of climate risks, implement an adaptation strategy and feed into their CSRD reporting.Based on a set of proprietary data derived...
Mapping the unseen : unveiling nature and biodiversity data for sovereign bonds
Nature and biodiversity issues are gaining increased attention from corporate boards and investment committees. Markets recognise the need for nature and biodiversity data to support sovereign bonds in making informed decisions, managing environmental risks, and...
Impact funds and SFDR : a review of practices
The Impact Commission of France Invest, a federation of 56 asset management companies with nearly €12.5 billion under management, in partnership with AXA Climate, has published a report* on the SFDR classification practices of impact funds and the links between...
Protecting forests: innovations to accelerate sustainable strategies
With 4 billion hectares of forest area worldwide, representing 31% of the total Earth land area (1), the role this ecosystem plays in our planet's balance is crucial. If major differences exist between tropical, boreal, temperate and subtropical woodlands, the world...
Building Climate Resilience in Infrastructure Projects: A Brief for Investors
Infrastructure investment serves as a critical foundation for sustainable economic development in developing nations. By improving transportation, energy, water, and communication networks, these investments catalyse productivity, connectivity, and growth. However,...
Three videos to help you understand the challenges and opportunities of CSRD double materiality analysis
You already read tons of articles and white papers on CSRD and still have trouble fully getting to grips with the whole concept?Here, you won’t find another top-down vision of CSRD.At AXA Climate we decided to talk to the people who are directly concerned with this...
Altitude Agriculture, the first tool measuring the impact of climate change on crop production launched by AXA Climate.
With this innovative digital platform, AXA Climate is supporting stakeholders in the food-processing industry - such as the Bonduelle Group - in making their operations more sustainable in response to climate change. Assessing the riskThrough building on data from...
How can the telecoms sector in West Africa adapt its infrastructures to climate change
West Africa's telecoms sector is looking to expand connectivity, but is facing major challenges: infrastructure investment is lagging and requires predictability, but climate threats are jeopardising its progress.A recent World Bank study, conducted by AXA Climate and...
Everything you always wanted to know about TCFD as a Private Equity Asset Manager
In 2017, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) published 11 recommendations and supporting disclosure recommendations related to Governance, Strategy, Risk Management, and Metrics and Targets to enable organisations to report on climate change...
How about we start 2024 by exploring science in a way that goes beyond numbers?
We tend to quantify the environment. Temperatures, percentages, statistics, rates. Yet, the experience of nature is primarily sensory. What if science was told differently than through numbers?Climate change does not concern our measuring tools!It raises, above all,...
AXA Climate, AXA Seguros Mexico and ClimateSeed are jointly creating the 1st insurance policy for the protection of mangrove forests in Mexico
In partnership with ClimateSeed and AXA Seguros Mexico, AXA Climate has developed an innovative parametric insurance product to protect the community of fishermen responsible for the restoration of San Crisanto mangrove forests against the impacts of hurricanes. In...