WMS Hinweiskarte Starkregengefahren is a German national Web Map Service showing simulated heavy-rain hazard data, including maximum inundation depths, flow velocities and directions for extreme rainfall scenarios. It supports GIS integration and helps outline potential surface flood risk areas nationwide.

Federal Institute of Hydrology (Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde) is Germany’s federal authority for hydrology and inland waterways. It provides scientific research, data, and expert advice on river basins, water quality, sediment, and climate impacts, supporting infrastructure planning, environmental protection, and evidence-based public policy and national water management decision-making across Germany.

KanataQ Ltd provides climate and nature risk analytics for financial institutions, corporates and investors. It develops data-driven models, scenarios and tools to assess physical and transition risks, support regulatory reporting, and inform strategic decision-making across climate, ESG and sustainable finance, using forward-looking insights aligned with global climate frameworks and standards.

Global Energy Monitor (GEM) is a non-profit research organisation that develops and publishes open-access data, interactive tools, and analysis on global energy infrastructure, including fossil fuels and renewable projects. GEM’s datasets and reports inform energy transition, climate policy and public understanding worldwide.

PACTA for Banks is a free, open-source climate scenario analysis toolkit that enables banks to assess how well their corporate lending portfolios align with climate scenarios, using sector and asset-level data to inform lending strategy and climate target-setting.

The GHG Protocol Life Cycle Databases page lists third-party life cycle inventory and emissions datasets to support product life cycle and corporate value chain (Scope 3) greenhouse gas accounting. It links to multiple global and sector-specific LCI sources, with summaries of content, formats and accessibility.

openLCA Nexus is an online repository providing access to life cycle assessment databases for environmental and sustainability analysis. It hosts free and licensed datasets from multiple providers, covering energy, materials, agriculture, transport and waste, designed for use within the openLCA software environment.

An interactive German Environment Agency (UBA) GIS tourism map showing climatic trends for key travel regions in Germany, including visualised climate data, tables and time series to support analysis of climate impacts on tourism. It aids environmental and regional planning by linking spatial data to tourism-related climate indicators

This tool provides climate impact fact sheets for German rural districts (Landkreise), developed by GERICS. It offers region-specific climate indicators, projections, and risks to support evidence-based decision-making, adaptation planning, and risk assessment relevant to public authorities and finance professionals.

The Coastal Risk Screening Tool by Climate Central provides interactive maps and data showing current and future coastal flood exposure from sea-level rise and storm surge. It supports financial risk assessment, asset screening, and location-based climate impact analysis for coastal regions.

WESR: Risk is an analytical tool that examines systemic environmental and societal risks and their potential economic impacts. It provides structured insights into risk drivers, interconnections and long-term trends, supporting high-level risk identification and contextual analysis for finance and investment decision-making.

WESR – Water provides geospatial insights on water availability, stress, and related risks. It supports location-based assessment of water-related exposure, enabling finance professionals to integrate water risk considerations into investment analysis, risk management, and sustainability decision-making.

Ecoinvent Association is a Swiss not-for-profit association providing one of the world’s most comprehensive Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases for environmental and sustainability assessments. Its transparent, high-quality environmental data supports life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon footprinting and supply chain impact analysis for researchers, companies and policymakers.

Climate Interactive creates and shares scientifically grounded climate simulators and interactive tools that help users explore climate solutions, energy policy impacts and systems thinking. It supports workshops, role-playing games and training to inform effective, equitable climate action worldwide, with tools like En-ROADS and C-ROADS widely used by educators and policymakers.

Climate Central is an independent, non-profit organisation that researches and communicates climate science. It produces data-driven analysis, visual tools, and reports on climate change, sea-level rise, and extreme weather. Climate Central supports journalists, decision-makers, and the public with accessible, evidence-based climate information for global risk assessment and climate literacy initiatives.

This article explores how climate change is reshaping fiduciary duty for pension funds, through court cases, legal analysis, and the concept of systemic risk. It introduces the “climate prisoner’s dilemma,” arguing that climate-aware investment may be shifting from discretionary to obligatory for long-term fiduciaries.