Introduction to the Climate and Environment Risk Assessment Toolbox (CERAT)

Climate and Environment Risk Assessment Toolbox (CERAT) is dedicated to help stakeholders quantify the environmental risks and benefits of investment projects, improve transparency, and demonstrate responsibility. The tool integrates existing methodologies that map environmental and climate risks based on project-level technical information. It is available for free access by all stakeholders, including but not limited to banks, investors, construction companies and even regulators and government agencies.

In the first phase, CERAT provides carbon accounting for existing and new projects in industry sectors with high emissions intensity potential, including energy, construction and transportation. Based on project information and anticipated or actual performance, it examines compliance with existing international and national standards, then calculates the carbon emission intensity of the project, benchmarking it against regulatory requirements.

The current CERAT Phase II development includes more quality information on climate, environmental, biodiversity and water risks to help financial or investment institutions understand and evaluate the environmental risks of investment projects, enhance the risk prevention ability of financial system, and guide Chinese enterprises to further standardize environmental protection behaviors in their overseas investment cooperation, guide enterprises to actively fulfill the social responsibility of environmental protection, and promote the sustainable development of overseas investment.

Click the above picture or cerat.gipbr.net to visit Climate and Environment Risk Assessment Toolbox (CERAT)

You will need a username and password to login to the CERAT. GIP members will get the login information through the Secretariat. If you don’t have this information, you can do the following:

1. Check if your institution is a GIP signatory or supporter through its webiste;

2. Contact the Secretariat for a temporary login information if you are a not-for-profit organization. The email of the Secretariat is sec_gip@gipbr.net;

3. Apply for GIP membership by following here.