Jonas Osman

By Jonas Osman

Climate Risk Modelling Library

Climate risk modelling requires more than generic ESG commentary. It needs hazard-level data, scenario design, exposure mapping, vulnerability functions, calibration, validation, uncertainty testing, and clear governance. This library collects Jonas Osman's research notes and modelling frameworks across physical risk, transition risk, financial impact modelling, insurance loss modelling, and regulatory climate stress testing.

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Featured research

Foundational notes by Jonas Osman on end-to-end climate risk modelling.

Climate Risk Modelling12 min read

Climate Risk Modelling: From Scenario Narratives to Quantified Financial Loss

By Jonas Osman

Explains how climate narratives are converted into risk factors, exposures, shocks, losses, and capital metrics.

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Physical Climate Risk11 min read

Physical Risk Modelling for Banks and Insurers

By Jonas Osman

Covers flood, wind, heat, wildfire, drought, and coastal risk modelling for credit, insurance, and market portfolios.

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Transition Risk10 min read

Transition Risk Modelling: Policy, Carbon Price, Technology and Demand Shocks

By Jonas Osman

Shows how climate transition pathways affect sectors, balance sheets, asset values, credit risk, and profitability.

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Scenario Analysis9 min read

NGFS Scenarios in Climate Risk Modelling

By Jonas Osman

Explains how NGFS scenarios can be mapped to macroeconomic variables, sector pathways, and financial risk models.

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Climate Risk Modelling13 min read

Building a Climate Risk Engine: End-to-End Architecture

By Jonas Osman

Presents a full architecture from data ingestion to scenario design, calibration, loss modelling, validation, reporting, and governance.

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All articles

36 articles

Climate Risk Modelling12 min read

Climate Risk Modelling: From Scenario Narratives to Quantified Financial Loss

By Jonas Osman

Explains how climate narratives are converted into risk factors, exposures, shocks, losses, and capital metrics.

scenario designfinancial lossrisk factors
Physical Climate Risk11 min read

Physical Risk Modelling for Banks and Insurers

By Jonas Osman

Covers flood, wind, heat, wildfire, drought, and coastal risk modelling for credit, insurance, and market portfolios.

physical riskbanksinsurers
Transition Risk10 min read

Transition Risk Modelling: Policy, Carbon Price, Technology and Demand Shocks

By Jonas Osman

Shows how climate transition pathways affect sectors, balance sheets, asset values, credit risk, and profitability.

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Scenario Analysis9 min read

NGFS Scenarios in Climate Risk Modelling

By Jonas Osman

Explains how NGFS scenarios can be mapped to macroeconomic variables, sector pathways, and financial risk models.

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Climate Data Sources8 min read

Climate Risk Data Sources for Europe

By Jonas Osman

Reviews public and institutional data sources for European climate risk, including hazard, exposure, macro, sector, and insurance data.

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Physical Climate Risk11 min read

Flood Risk Modelling: Hazard, Exposure, Vulnerability and Loss

By Jonas Osman

Explains flood maps, return periods, depth-damage curves, insured loss modelling, and validation.

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NatCat & Hazard Modelling10 min read

Windstorm Risk Modelling for Insurance and Banking Portfolios

By Jonas Osman

Covers wind hazard intensity, spatial correlation, vulnerability curves, event sets, and portfolio loss aggregation.

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Physical Climate Risk9 min read

Heat Risk Modelling for Mortality, Productivity and Credit Risk

By Jonas Osman

Links heat stress to health impacts, labour productivity, operational disruption, real estate, and credit quality.

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Physical Climate Risk9 min read

Drought Risk Modelling for Agriculture, Energy and Insurance

By Jonas Osman

Covers drought indicators, crop stress, hydropower impacts, food supply chains, and insurance loss modelling.

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NatCat & Hazard Modelling10 min read

Wildfire Risk Modelling: Exposure, Ignition, Spread and Loss

By Jonas Osman

Explains wildfire risk components and their relevance for property, insurance, mortgage and infrastructure portfolios.

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Physical Climate Risk10 min read

Coastal Flooding and Sea-Level Rise Risk Modelling

By Jonas Osman

Covers coastal exposure, storm surge, sea-level pathways, property valuation, and infrastructure risk.

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Calibration & Validation9 min read

Climate Vulnerability Functions: The Bridge Between Hazard and Loss

By Jonas Osman

Explains how vulnerability curves convert hazard intensity into damage ratios, losses, and financial impacts.

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Calibration & Validation8 min read

Climate Model Calibration: Avoiding Fixed Assumptions

By Jonas Osman

Describes how climate risk models should document data sources, fitted parameters, expert overrides, and validation evidence.

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Calibration & Validation9 min read

Backtesting Climate Risk Models When Historical Data Is Limited

By Jonas Osman

Discusses proxy backtesting, event validation, sensitivity testing, stress testing, and benchmarking.

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Calibration & Validation8 min read

Uncertainty in Climate Risk Modelling

By Jonas Osman

Covers scenario uncertainty, model uncertainty, parameter uncertainty, data gaps, and governance treatment.

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Banking Climate Risk12 min read

Climate Stress Testing for Banks

By Jonas Osman

Explains how climate shocks flow into PD, LGD, EAD, collateral values, income, liquidity, and capital planning.

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Insurance Climate Risk11 min read

Climate Stress Testing for Insurers

By Jonas Osman

Covers underwriting risk, reserve risk, asset risk, reinsurance, catastrophe losses, and ORSA climate scenarios.

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Banking Climate Risk10 min read

Climate Risk and IFRS 9 Expected Credit Loss

By Jonas Osman

Shows how climate scenarios can affect macro overlays, staging, PD term structures, LGD, and provision sensitivity.

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Insurance Climate Risk10 min read

Climate Risk and Solvency II ORSA

By Jonas Osman

Explains climate scenario design, underwriting impacts, asset impacts, capital planning, and board-level ORSA reporting.

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Banking Climate Risk10 min read

Climate Risk and ICAAP/ILAAP

By Jonas Osman

Explains how climate scenarios can be embedded into ICAAP, liquidity stress testing, concentration risk, and capital adequacy.

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Banking Climate Risk10 min read

Climate Risk in Real Estate and Mortgage Portfolios

By Jonas Osman

Covers flood, heat, energy efficiency, collateral value, EPC data, mortgage risk, and regional concentration.

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Banking Climate Risk10 min read

Climate Risk in Corporate Credit Portfolios

By Jonas Osman

Explains sector pathways, emissions intensity, transition vulnerability, credit rating migration, and default risk.

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Transition Risk9 min read

Sector-Level Transition Risk: Energy, Transport, Real Estate and Manufacturing

By Jonas Osman

Reviews sector sensitivities to carbon pricing, regulation, technology substitution, and demand changes.

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Transition Risk9 min read

Carbon Price Shock Modelling

By Jonas Osman

Explains how carbon price pathways affect operating costs, margins, creditworthiness, and equity valuation.

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Scenario Analysis9 min read

Climate Risk and Asset Valuation

By Jonas Osman

Shows how climate shocks can affect equity, bonds, property, infrastructure, credit spreads, and liquidity premia.

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Climate Risk Modelling9 min read

Climate Risk Aggregation Across Portfolios

By Jonas Osman

Covers aggregation across geography, asset class, counterparty, hazard type, and scenario horizon.

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NatCat & Hazard Modelling8 min read

Spatial Correlation in Climate Risk Models

By Jonas Osman

Explains why location dependence matters for flood, wind, heat, wildfire, and portfolio concentration.

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Calibration & Validation10 min read

Tail Risk and Extreme Value Theory in Climate Loss Modelling

By Jonas Osman

Introduces POT/GPD, extreme loss modelling, tail dependence, and climate stress testing.

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Calibration & Validation10 min read

Copulas in Climate Risk Aggregation

By Jonas Osman

Explains Gaussian, Student-t and non-linear dependence structures for climate and financial risk aggregation.

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AI for Climate Risk11 min read

AI and Machine Learning for Climate Risk Modelling

By Jonas Osman

Explains how AI can support hazard classification, exposure mapping, loss estimation, scenario generation, and documentation.

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AI for Climate Risk9 min read

Explainable AI for Climate Risk Governance

By Jonas Osman

Covers explainability, audit trails, model documentation, validation, and governance controls.

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Climate Data Sources10 min read

Climate Risk Data Pipeline Architecture

By Jonas Osman

Describes ingestion, cleaning, geocoding, hazard mapping, exposure linking, validation, and reporting layers.

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Climate Data Sources9 min read

Exposure Mapping for Climate Risk

By Jonas Osman

Explains how assets, properties, counterparties, facilities, and insured locations can be mapped to hazard layers.

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Climate Risk Modelling8 min read

Climate Risk Dashboards for Executives and Boards

By Jonas Osman

Shows how technical climate model outputs can be translated into decision-useful KPIs, heatmaps, and risk appetite metrics.

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Calibration & Validation9 min read

Climate Risk Model Governance Framework

By Jonas Osman

Defines governance roles, model inventory, limitations, validation cycles, change control, and approval workflows.

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Climate Risk Modelling13 min read

Building a Climate Risk Engine: End-to-End Architecture

By Jonas Osman

Presents a full architecture from data ingestion to scenario design, calibration, loss modelling, validation, reporting, and governance.

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Climate Risk Modelling Framework

A structured, governed workflow by Jonas Osman.

  1. 1Scenario selection
  2. 2Hazard data ingestion
  3. 3Exposure mapping
  4. 4Vulnerability modelling
  5. 5Financial impact translation
  6. 6Calibration
  7. 7Validation and backtesting
  8. 8Governance and reporting

Climate Risk Model Components

Modular engines that make up an end-to-end climate risk platform.

Hazard engine

Physical hazard intensity, event sets, and return periods across perils.

Exposure engine

Assets, counterparties, locations, and facilities mapped to hazard layers.

Vulnerability engine

Damage functions linking hazard intensity to asset-level loss ratios.

Loss engine

Event, annual, and scenario loss aggregation across portfolios.

Scenario engine

NGFS and bespoke pathways translated into risk factors and shocks.

Financial impact engine

Translation of shocks into PD, LGD, valuation, reserves, and capital.

Validation engine

Backtesting, sensitivity, benchmarking, and expert challenge.

Reporting engine

KPIs, dashboards, and disclosures for executives, boards, and supervisors.