Understanding corporations’ exposure to physical risks — and their resilience to them — is essential to building a climate-proof economy.
But if this information is manufactured by black box models and hidden behind paywalls, then investors, communities, and governments will only be able to guess at the size and scale of this challenge.
Meryam Omi is on a mission to ensure corporate resilience data is open, transparent, and accessible to those who need it.
She’s the Chief Executive of Arc, a UK-based non-profit building the “information infrastructure” for climate transition and resilience action. Prior to this, she spent 16 years in investment management trying to embed sustainability into mainstream capital allocation — work that convinced her the market was missing critical public infrastructure it couldn’t build for itself. Now, Arc is using philanthropic funding to create open data tools for the public good.
In this episode, Meryam joins us fresh off London Climate Action Week, where she unveiled the beta version of ResilienceArc — a free, interactive platform assessing corporate exposure and resilience to physical climate risks, covering physical risk profiles for 3,000 companies and full resilience assessments for 200.
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We get into the mechanics of how ResilienceArc was built, including Arc’s partnerships with physical risk data provider XDI and LSE’s Earth Capital Nexus, and why Meryam is adamant the platform stays a collaborative, open alternative to the walled gardens of commercial climate risk data.
She’s candid about the limitations of the current beta, the challenges of building a rating system that actually means something rather than just chasing an ‘A’ grade, and the uncomfortable incentives working against corporate disclosure in the first place.
If you work in corporate resilience, climate risk data, or sustainable finance, this is a deep, nerdy dive into one of the sector’s thorniest problems: how to turn scattered, inconsistent climate risk information into something companies and investors can actually trust and act on.
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Louie Woodall
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