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The new climate economy

The new climate economy is changing how decisions are made.

Horizon helps organisations turn climate exposure into clearer financial and strategic decision support.
Climate decision context

Navigating
Structural
Volatility

Energy companies are being asked to make decisions in a business environment where climate volatility increasingly shapes operational, financial, and strategic outcomes.
Operations
Plans built around historical patterns are now more exposed to climate volatility and timing uncertainty.
Finance
Capital allocation and planning models are increasingly shaped by climate-adjusted risk.
Risk
Climate exposure is no longer only a disclosure issue — it directly affects resilience and cost.
Strategy
Strategic decisions are becoming harder to defend when climate assumptions remain implicit.

Two approaches are emerging

Energy companies face the same climate volatility. What increasingly differentiates them is how their decision frameworks respond to it.
Climate-informed path
Organisations building climate-informed decision frameworks
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Plans are tested against climate-adjusted assumptions rather than historic baselines alone.
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Exposure is quantified in financial terms that can be discussed across teams.
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Strategic trade-offs are made with clearer visibility into downside, timing, and resilience.
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Decisions are easier to explain internally and defend externally.
Legacy path
Organisations operating on legacy assumptions
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Planning continues to rely on historic norms and implicit assumptions.
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Exposure remains difficult to quantify or compare in financial terms.
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Decisions are harder to align across operations, finance, risk, and strategy.
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Strategic decisions become harder to justify when assumptions are challenged later.
The real difference is the ability to translate it all into defensible decisions.
What we hear from energy leaders

What is happening across energy organisations

Across planning, risk, and investment teams, similar patterns are starting to surface as climate variability becomes more visible in outcomes.

Uplift vs baseline

Expected performance increasingly diverges from historic baselines, making traditional planning assumptions less reliable.

Diversification lag

Geographic and asset diversification does not always offset climate exposure as quickly as expected.

Portfolio amplification

Climate variability can amplify across portfolios, creating more pronounced impacts at scale.

Incomplete protection

Existing risk frameworks do not always fully capture or reflect climate-driven variability.

The cost of inaction

Inaction compounds quietly

Assumptions remain unchanged, while climate variability continues to shift outcomes.
Exposure builds gradually across operations, portfolios, and planning cycles.
Decisions become harder to explain when outcomes begin to diverge from expectations.
And by the time it becomes visible, it is often already embedded.
How Horizon works

A shared decision layer for climate-adjusted reasoning

Horizon introduces a structured decision layer where climate variability, asset performance, and financial exposure can be interpreted consistently across teams.

  • Aligns operational, financial, and strategic decision-making
  • Links forecast uncertainty to real-world thresholds
  • Enables defensible, repeatable decision frameworks
Horizon • Decision layer
Live view
Climate-adjusted reasoning
What Horizon supports

Decision support built for climate-adjusted planning

Horizon helps teams turn climate variability into structured, cross-functional decision support across portfolios, planning cycles, and investment choices.

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Financial quantification

Translate climate exposure into quantified financial implications that can be compared, discussed, and acted on.

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Cross-functional alignment

Create a shared decision layer across operations, finance, risk, and strategy teams.

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Complex scenario modelling

Explore climate-adjusted scenarios with clearer visibility into exposure, resilience, and defensibility.

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AI-supported prioritisation

Surface material risks before they escalate.

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Comprehensive portfolio visibility

Monitor exposure across assets, regions, and planning horizons.

Built on Weathernews expertise

Why Weathernews

Horizon is backed by decades of operational forecasting expertise, global observation infrastructure, and decision support experience across weather-sensitive industries.

130K
Observation stations
40+
Years of experience
200+
Expert forecasters
50+
Serviced countries
A global forecasting foundation built to support clearer, climate-adjusted decisions.
Early partnership

Be the first to protect your assets

We are working with a limited number of industry partners to refine this decision layer.

Influence over platform development
A portfolio climate assessment today
Preferential early access
Direct collaboration as Horizon evolves
Strengthen your financial resilience to climate volatility.