Upright launches physical climate and transition risk assessment in euros – for every site and supplier

• Real-time climate risk assessment: Physical and transition risks for companies, sites, and suppliers, with minimal company-specific data needed.
• Outside-in modelling: Global climate science combined with Upright’s company, product, and value-chain data.
• Product-level transition risk: Transition risks modelled against what products companies actually produce and sell.
• Financial impact: Climate risks translated into financial effects and comparable across companies, suppliers, and portfolios.
• One data infrastructure: Climate risk integrated with Upright’s existing impact, double materiality, and ESG due diligence data.

Upright, the Helsinki-based data technology company, today launches its physical climate and transition risk assessment, enabling companies, investors, and procurement teams to quantify climate risk for any company, site or supplier in minutes, with minimal input data.

Upright combines global climate science with information about where a company operates, what it produces, and how its value chain works. Physical risks are assessed at site level, while transition risks are modelled against the company’s products and services and translated into potential financial effects.

Annu Nieminen, Founder & CEO of Upright, said:

“People are done with climate-risk projects that take weeks just to produce a traffic-light dashboard. The underlying climate data is not exactly a secret – most solutions are working from the same global datasets. What matters is what you do with it. We’ve spent years mapping companies to their products and value chains and translating sustainability exposure into financial terms, so adding product-level, financial-grade climate risk was a no-brainer when customers were increasingly asking us for it.”

From climate data to a business decision

Upright matches company sites to global climate datasets including NASA NEX-GDDP-CMIP6, ISIMIP, WRI Aqueduct Floods and the STORM cyclone dataset, under IPCC climate scenarios.

For transition risk, Upright maps what a company produces and sells to its proprietary product and service taxonomy, using value-chain intelligence developed since 2017. The company says its product-level approach captures differences in transition exposure that sector-level scores can miss. As an example, neighbouring factories producing candles and EVs face different transition risks.

Results can be viewed across three IPCC warming scenarios, with physical risk available for individual years from 2026 to 2100. Users can trace results back to the underlying evidence using Upright’s agentic features.

Use cases for procurement and investors

The solution works for even thousands of companies at once, making Upright’s broader expansion from sustainability risk analysis into procurement and wider supplier and value-chain risks.

With the new tool, companies can screen their full supplier base without sending questionnaires, identify the sites and suppliers with the greatest exposure, and direct engagement, mitigation, and dual-sourcing efforts accordingly.

Investors can similarly screen climate exposure across public and private portfolios, or assess new targets and holdings without burdening management teams with additional data requests. The assessment builds on Upright’s sustainability due diligence screening of impacts, risks, and opportunities for investors, launched earlier in 2026.

Annu Nieminen said:

“The sustainability market is under pressure from every direction: regulation keeps shifting, budgets are tighter, and AI is changing what customers expect from software. We’ve decided to lean into that rather than defend the old way of working. Let machines do the data production, make the underlying evidence traceable, and use the same infrastructure for more of the work. That’s how we’ve kept our customers’ trust since 2017 while expanding beyond the traditional sustainability-tool model.”

The launch is the latest step in Upright’s 2026 product expansion, following its purpose-built LLM for impact quantification, real-time ESG due diligence for investors, agentic capabilities and MCP connections. The company is also extending its data infrastructure into procurement and broader risk-screening workflows, alongside its ongoing AI alignment work.

The physical climate and transition risk assessment is available now on Upright.

Notes to editors

For more information and exclusive interviews, please contact Pauliina Bogdanoff, VP, Marketing & Communications at Upright, at pauliina.bogdanoff@uprightproject.com or on +358 44 0241 616.

About Upright

The Upright Project is a Helsinki-based independent, AI-native data company and the creator of the world's largest impact quantification model of the global private sector. Upright’s proprietary data engine quantifies sustainability impacts, risks, and opportunities with financial translation instantly for any asset – product, company, fund – benchmarked across a library of 35,000 funds and 70,000 companies. Today, more than 300 businesses and investors like Orkla, Oura, European Investment Bank, Pictet, APG, and EQT rely on Upright’s science-based model to bring instant transparency to real-world sustainability risks and opportunities.