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Understand exposure before choosing a response

Climate Risk Analysis for Queensland and Regional Australian Businesses

Management, a lender or a reporting process needs to understand your climate exposure. Aethiro helps identify the risks to your sites and operations, document the assumptions and prioritise resilience actions.

An initial risk assessment is not a complete mandatory-reporting scenario analysis. The required depth is agreed for each engagement.

Make climate exposure usable for decisions

For Queensland mining, agriculture and industrial businesses, physical risks can include heat, flooding, cyclones, drought and disruption to transport or water supply. Transition risks can arise from policy, technology, energy costs and changing customer requirements.

We connect these exposures to your assets, operating dependencies and planning horizons. The output supports board, management and lender discussions without promising outcomes controlled by an insurer or finance provider.

Four outputs to support the next decision

Site and asset exposure register

A documented view of locations, assets and operating dependencies that may be exposed to climate hazards.

Physical and transition risk assessment

Risks prioritised against the agreed business context, with the basis for the assessment and material uncertainties recorded.

Scenario assumptions

Relevant pathways, time horizons, sources and limitations documented at a level appropriate to the engagement.

Prioritised resilience actions

Practical next steps, information gaps and responsibilities for further investigation or management review.

Choose the depth of assessment

Initial identification and prioritisation

A review of available information and a discussion with your team to identify exposures, dependencies and priorities. Useful for early management decisions and defining further work.

Detailed scenario-analysis support

A separately defined engagement aligned to reporting needs, evidence and analytical capability. Specialist hazard modelling, valuation or engineering input may be required and is not assumed to be included.

How the engagement works

  1. Define the decision

    Agree the assets, locations, time horizons, intended use and level of analysis.

  2. Assess available evidence

    Review exposure and business dependencies, discuss assumptions and record uncertainties.

  3. Review actions and gaps

    Present findings and agree what needs management action, specialist input or further analysis.

Bring the operating context

Start with site locations, asset and infrastructure lists, supply-chain dependencies, business plans and known disruptions. Existing risk registers, insurance information and lender or reporting requests help define the scope. We support regional Queensland and Australia-wide engagements from Gladstone.

Reporting requirements and useful context

TCFD terminology remains useful for understanding governance, strategy and risk management. Where mandatory Australian reporting applies, AASB S2 Reporting Support connects the assessment to the wider disclosure process.

Which climate scenarios can Australian reporting require?

Where Corporations Act section 296D requires scenario analysis, it must use at least both a scenario well above 2°C and one limited to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. AASB S2’s proportionality provisions do not remove those additional requirements. See Corporations Act, section 296D.

Will the assessment improve insurance or finance terms?

It supplies documented risk information and proposed actions. Insurers and lenders make their own decisions; premium reductions or better financing terms are not promised.

Read the Queensland climate-risk guide or Group 2 reporting guide. For emissions actions, see Reduction Planning.

Define the assessment around its use

Tell us which sites or decisions are in scope and who needs the findings. We will distinguish an initial risk review from any more detailed reporting or scenario-analysis work.

Prefer email? Email a climate risk enquiry.