Where climate intelligence
meets capital conviction
The new blueprint for climate impact
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our generation.
- Accelerating and increasingly visible climate events are causing immediate, quantifiable damage to high-capex infrastructure, ecosystem services and human life.
- As an example, the atmosphere's moisture-holding capacity rises by roughly 7% for every 1°C of warming, which means heavier extreme rainfall, higher dew points and rising wet-bulb temperatures. This presents a real economic challenge impacting design assumptions set for a different climate, labour productivity and asset integrity.
- Individual risks are identifiable and manageable. Compounding, interconnected risk is the greater threat and opportunity that requires an enterprise response.
- Insurance underwriters and lenders are pricing physical and transition climate vulnerabilities directly into capital allocation decisions. This is affecting the availability and cost of capital, and driving premiums, deductibles and coverage terms.
- Market capability will only sharpen. Public datasets already allow capital providers to compare vulnerabilities, exposures and performance across companies independently.
- In the absence of a global carbon price, markets are already pricing climate risk. The opportunity is to own your exposure and your resilience pathway. Otherwise the market will define both for you.
- Mandatory disclosure aligned to IFRS S2 is arriving across major markets, requiring boards to disclose the financial effects of climate-related risks and opportunities.
- Covered entities must move beyond narrative to quantified enterprise, operational and financial impact.
- Do not mistake this for a sustainability reporting exercise. The intent of IFRS S2 is to embed climate into core risk, financial and strategic decision-making. Treating it as a disclosure task understates both the effort required and the strategic opportunity at stake.
We determine the risk and build high-conviction business cases.
We put a number on climate risk.
We identify risks and opportunities, determine financial damages and climate resilience, and embed the decision-making logic into core business process.
We find the interventions that pay back.
We identify mitigation and adaptation options that reduce expected losses and strengthen financial, operational and asset resilience.
We make the case bankable.
We develop high-conviction business cases built to withstand capital committee, finance, insurer and lender scrutiny.
Advisory and technology designed to address your key questions.
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Advisory
We provide advice to understand the options, the impact and the interventions to positively impact top and bottom lines
Climate
Technology
Our technology determines the climate issues that matter most and prepares outputs ready for business integration
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Senior people, doing the work, supported by a global network.
Supporting clients across energy and industrials, financial, government and infrastructure sectors, we deliver climate projects designed to make a real-world impact.
Platform & technology
- Data science and analytics
Technical experts
- Ex-Big 4 sustainability leadership
- IPCC contributors and technical reviewers
- Climate adaptation and nature specialists
Advisers
- Climate scientists
- Finance and transaction specialists
- Sector and industry advisers
Michael Wood
- Ex-Partner: EY (Middle East), Deloitte (Australia)
- 20+ years' experience in climate and sustainability
Yarn Climate Advisory LLC is led by Michael Wood, an entrepreneurial and commercially driven climate and sustainability leader with over 20 years of experience spanning energy, natural resources, finance and government sectors across the Asia-Pacific, MENA and global institutional markets. He was the founding partner and leader of EY's MENA Sustainability & Climate Consulting practice, and former Deloitte partner in Australia, specialising in decarbonisation, climate resilience, energy, circularity and sustainability transformation.
Driven by the conviction that climate and sustainability are direct levers of enterprise value and profitability, not compliance obligations. Sets strategic direction and stays the course through delivery, building the capabilities and the people needed to solve complex, real-world systems challenges for some of the world's most impactful organisations.
Sought as a strategic adviser and board-level voice on the intersection of climate risk, capital allocation and long-term enterprise resilience.
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Dr Stephanie Downes
Stephanie brings 20+ years’ experience across climate, sustainability, circular economy, consulting, government, research and leadership. A former Executive Director Asia-Pacific at WRAP and former national Director of Deloitte Climate & Sustainability, she has led value chain risk and scenario analysis for 40+ businesses covering 10,000+ assets across 75+ countries. She holds a PhD in Global Climate Change and has 25+ peer-reviewed publications cited 1,600+ times.
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Matthew Bateson
Matthew is an environmental, social and climate executive with over 30 years of delivery experience inside major mining, energy and industrial companies, across operating geographies on six continents. He has been Chief Sustainability Officer at Ma'aden, Chief Climate and Sustainability Officer at Saudi Aramco, SVP Environment and Climate Change at Rio Tinto, and managing director for energy and climate at the WBCSD, where he oversaw the development of the Scope 3 GHG Protocol. Earlier, he held senior roles at Shell, leading government and stakeholder relations for major oil and gas projects in Sakhalin and the north Caspian. He has contributed to the multi-billion dollar financing of major oil, gas and mining projects, served on the boards of IETA (as vice-chair) and Verra, and chaired the ICMM Environment and Climate Committee.
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Amy Steel
Amy is a researcher at Curtin University investigating fire on remote islands to support ecosystem health in a changing climate. With over 10 years’ experience, she has supported transition and adaptation strategy and planning for groups around the world, including as Oceania Co-Leader for Climate Risk at ENGIE Impact and in Deloitte’s Sustainability & Climate Change practice. A qualified Chartered Accountant, she brings a financial reporting lens to climate disclosure.
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