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.

GIS-ImmoRisk Naturgefahren is a German web-based GIS tool for assessing natural hazard exposure and property-specific risk from events such as floods, storms, heat and earthquakes. It combines location-based hazard data with building characteristics to inform risk analysis and investment decisions for real estate professionals.

The WESR: Mediterranean MapX project provides geospatial data on environmental stressors and ecosystem risks across the Mediterranean region. It supports analysis of climate, biodiversity and resource pressures, offering spatial evidence to inform environmental risk assessment and sustainability considerations relevant to finance and investment decision-making.

WESR: Mountains on MapX is a geospatial tool that maps environmental and socio-economic indicators across mountain regions. It supports spatial analysis of climate, biodiversity and livelihoods, enabling evidence-based assessment of risks, resilience and sustainable development priorities in mountain ecosystems.

WESR: Ocean provides high-level insights into ocean-related environmental risks and pressures, including marine ecosystems, pollution and resource use. It supports risk identification and contextual analysis for financial decision-making linked to ocean health, coastal exposure and sustainability considerations.

Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBR) is a German federal research institute providing evidence-based analysis on building, housing, urban development, and spatial planning. BBR produces research, data, and policy advice supporting sustainable cities, regional development, infrastructure planning, and informed public decision-making across national and international policy contexts and programmes.

Deutsches Klimaportal’s Bauwesen section offers streamlined access to German climate services and data relevant to the built environment, drawn from national providers. It supports climate adaptation planning and decision-making for the construction sector with factual climate information and tools.

The Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI) is a public, probabilistic model estimating infrastructure risk from major geological and climate hazards and resilience across sectors. It provides metrics like Average Annual Loss to inform national infrastructure risk assessment and resilience planning.

UN Biodiversity Lab’s Earth map is a free, online spatial data tool that lets users view and interact with over 400 global biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development map layers for analysis and planning. It supports visualising, downloading and combining datasets to inform conservation and policy decisions.

Regionaler Klimaatlas Deutschland is an interactive web tool presenting over 120 regional climate scenarios for Germany. It summarises research on future climate change, enabling users to view projected changes in climate elements such as temperature, precipitation and wind at national and regional levels.

EM-DAT is a global database of over 27 000 major natural and technological disasters since 1900, recording their occurrence and human and economic impacts. Maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), it supports evidence-based disaster risk reduction, preparedness and vulnerability assessment.

The Deutscher Klimaatlas by the German Weather Service (DWD) is an interactive online tool that presents maps and time-series of past, current and projected future climate data for Germany (1881–2100), showing spatial and temporal climate patterns and scenarios.

The UFZ Drought Monitor provides daily, spatially resolved maps and downloadable data on soil moisture and drought conditions across Germany. It uses simulations from the mesoscale hydrological model (mHM) to indicate drought severity in topsoil and total soil profiles, supporting climate and water resource research.

A German Federal Institute of Hydrology geoportal showing current national flood hazard and risk maps, combining official flood extent, probability and risk layers for reporting under the EU Floods Directive. It supports spatial analysis and links to regional hazard data from responsible authorities.

Länderübergreifendes Hochwasserportal (Hochwasserzentralen.de) provides up-to-date flood warnings, water levels and reports for Germany and adjacent regions. It aggregates official river gauge data and warning information from federal states, with links to local flood services and an API for developers.

The CDC-Portal is an interactive web interface from the Deutscher Wetterdienst’s Climate Data Center that provides searchable access to climate data sets, enabling graphical and tabular previews and downloads of observational and derived climate data for research and analysis.