Topic: Physical Risk & Resilience

Asia’s Powerhouses at Risk: Physical Climate Risk Exposure and Resilience Readiness across Asia’s Electric Utilities

Report | Asia Investor Group on Climate Change | 25 November 2025

Asia’s Powerhouses at Risk: Physical Climate Risk Exposure and Resilience Readiness across Asia’s Electric Utilities, new research jointly published by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) and MSCI Institute, assesses physical climate risk exposure and resilience readiness across 11 major Asian electric utilities. It combines asset-level analysis of 2,422 power generation sites with a review of corporate adaptation plans, highlighting rising financial impacts from climate hazards and outlining actions for utilities, policymakers, and investors to strengthen systemic resilience.

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Climate Adaptation Crucial to Reduce Electricity Companies’ $6.3b Annual Costs from Climate Hazards

25 November 2025

New research jointly published by AIGCC and MSCI Institute, assesses physical climate risk exposure and resilience readiness across 11 major Asian electric utilities. It combines asset-level analysis of 2,422 power generation sites with a review of corporate adaptation plans, highlighting rising financial impacts from climate hazards and outlining actions for utilities, policymakers, and investors to strengthen systemic resilience.

Mobilising Regional Policy Action and Coordination on Transboundary Physical Climate Risks in Asia

Policy Briefings | Asia Investor Group on Climate Change | October 2025

Building on AIGCC’s report on Financing Asia’s National Adaptation Plans published in March 2025, this whitepaper articulates the case for increased attention and strengthened regional coordination to address TCRs in Asia. It outlines how policymakers across markets have begun to integrate TCRs in their National Adaptation Plans and suggests ways forward to create enabling policy environments in the region.

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Submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on the “Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T”

Policy Submissions | Asia Investor Group on Climate Change | September 2025

The Baku to Belém Roadmap represents a pivotal opportunity to scale up climate finance and foster public-private collaboration. This submission is in response to the COP Presidencies’ call for inputs on climate finance from Parties and Observers to the Roadmap on 6 August 2025.

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Summary – An assessment of the region’s adaptation plans against investors’ expectations

Report | Asia Investor Group on Climate Change | Physical Risk and Resilience Working Group | March 2025

The report is an assessment of the NAPs of nine Asian markets, benchmarked against seven investor expectations, and further mapped against elements of the NAP process as set out by the UNFCCC.

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Financing Asia’s National Adaptation Plans: An assessment of the region’s adaptation plans against investors’ expectations

Report | Asia Investor Group on Climate Change | Physical Risk and Resilience Working Group | March 2025

The report, released today by AIGCC, is an assessment of the NAPs of nine Asian markets, benchmarked against seven investor expectations, and further mapped against elements of the NAP process as set out by the UNFCCC.

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Asian Markets’ National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) are building blocks for private capital flows into climate adaptation planning

5 March 2025

New assessment from AIGCC shows that Asian governments are at varying stages of progress in identifying clear priorities for adaptation measures and projects that would be essential to mobilise private capital.

Post-COP29: Need for Accelerated Climate Transition is More Crucial Than Ever

3 December 2024

AIGCC's summary of the key developments in the 2024 conference of parties to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Preliminary Summary – Assessment of National Adaptation Plans and Policies

Policy Briefings | Jeffrey Tong | 11 November 2024

A summary analysis of national climate adaptation planning alignment with investor expectations.

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Data Dashboard – Assessment of Asian National Adaptation Plans

Report | Jeffrey Tong | 11 November 2024

This dashboard shows which existing adaptation plans and policies by governments across Asia align with investor expectations. These expectations include basing national adaptation plans on scenario analysis, consulting the private sector including financial institutions, and ensuring corporate disclosure on physical risks.

Analysis of National Adaptation Plans (Google Spreadsheet)