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C-RAB

C-RAB – Corporate Resilience Alignment Benchmark

The Corporate Resilience Alignment Benchmark (C-RAB) is the first standardised methodology for assessing how companies are preparing for physical climate risk. It gives investors and regulators a comparable, disclosure-based view of corporate resilience that complements existing asset-level risk models.

Why C-RAB

Recent climate-related hazards — hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes — have exposed deep vulnerabilities across supply chains, infrastructure and financial systems. Best-in-class methodologies estimate a company’s risk profile from the location and structural makeup of its physical assets, but stop short of capturing what firms are actually doing to manage that risk. This blind spot rewards location and penalises preparedness: companies investing in resilience look no different from those that are not.

C-RAB closes the gap. By assessing corporate disclosures to derive company-level resilience signals — standardised across companies and sectors to enable comparison and benchmarking — it surfaces the management actions that asset-level geospatial models cannot see.

How it works

C-RAB builds on existing frameworks and is structured around four metrics, each capturing a different element of a company’s approach to resilience:

  • Targets — the resilience outcomes a company has committed to
  • Implementation — the actions and investments underway to meet them
  • Processes — how resilience is embedded in risk management and operations
  • Governance — board and management accountability for resilience

The diagram below illustrates the kinds of insights C-RAB generates across these four metrics.

For the full framework, read the C-RAB methodology.

Read the methodology here
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Where it’s being applied

C-RAB is designed to be tailored. Users can run their own assessments in-house against public disclosures, privately disclosed information (for example, during due diligence) or other sources.

The methodology is also being applied on ResilienceArc, where it drives four of the five metrics on the platform. The Earth Capital Nexus team is providing C-RAB analysis on 250 companies for the Beta release.

Get in touch

We welcome opportunities to explore new applications of C-RAB. For enquiries, contact Roberto Spacey-Martín at r.spacey-martin@lse.ac.uk.