ISF and RiskThinking.ai partner to put powerful climate data and processing in the hands of leading academics and sustainability practitioners
September 17, 2026
The agreement will give ISF researchers and Canadian Sustainable Finance Network (CSFN) members access to the Climate Risk Commons platform.
Kingston, ON/Toronto, ON, Sept. 17, 2026.
Today, the Institute for Sustainable Finance at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, and RiskThinking.ai are announcing a new partnership to advance Canadian academics’ research into the severe risks climate change poses to the economy and financial system. The agreement will provide ISF researchers and members of the Canadian Sustainable Finance Network (CSFN) with access to valuable climate risk data and analytics.
RiskThinking.ai, a Canadian financial data and risk analytics firm, has developed a simulation engine that projects the impact of climate-related events, such as fires, floods, or extreme heat, on any asset worldwide. The goal is to help clients “manage the full spectrum of future climate uncertainty.”
Riskthinking.ai has also recently launched the Climate Risk Commons, a not-for-profit, open-access platform that provides researchers with access to this analytics engine, the institution’s own data, and many open data sets for non-commercial use. The analytics engine includes more than fifty climate hazards, 241 billion geolocated points, coverage across 193 countries, all IPCC emissions scenarios, and 15 time horizons to 2100, all built on an open technical standard.
ISF is working with RiskThinking.ai to put this powerful tool in the hands of ISF researchers and CSFN members, to expand the Climate Risk Commons network, and to conduct joint climate risk research and public communications.
“Quality, well-organized, standardized data is hard to find, yet it is the lifeblood of any academic institution,” said ISF Director Maya Saryyeva. “The beauty of this partnership is that the more researchers we bring to the platform, the greater the value we’ll derive from it. We’re very excited to get to work. The relationship with RiskThinking.ai gives us access to the same high-quality simulation engine used by Bloomberg on its terminal.”
About the Climate Risk Commons
The Climate Risk Commons, hosted at RiskThinking.org, the not-for-profit arm of RiskThinking.AI, provides enterprise-grade physical climate-risk analysis free of charge for non-commercial research and teaching. It is anchored by the Open Climate Risk Framework (OCRF), an open technical standard, and an open reference pipeline that provides access to the Climate Digital Twin via CDTexpress. Membership is free for non-commercial use, and a single letter of intent enrolls an institution's students, researchers, and faculty. For details, see RiskThinking.org.
Institute for Sustainable Finance
ISF was launched in 2019 as the first-ever cross-cutting and collaborative hub in Canada that fuses academia, the private sector, and government with the singular focus of increasing Canada’s sustainable finance capacity. The institute's mission is to align mainstream financial markets with Canada’s transition to a prosperous sustainable economy.
RiskThinking.Ai
RiskThinking.AI is a Toronto-based company specializing in climate data and financial risk analytics. Its unique Climate Digital Twin simulator delivers stochastic, multi-hazard, physical climate risk analytics to financial institutions, corporations, and governments worldwide.