Resilience can mean different things to different people, much like the word “sustainability.” At S&P Global Sustainable1, we view resilience as a simple concept at its core: It means creating a strategy that can withstand disruptions, allowing an entity to thrive in the long term.

Sustainable1 from S&P Global Energy Horizons has developed a framework for evaluating resilience and revealing decision-useful signals to drive value creation. This framework comprises four steps or layers and is detailed in this article

This framework can be applied to a broad range of environmental, societal, economic and technological change drivers, from the rise of AI tools, to exposure to climate physical and transition risks, to dependence on nature and biodiversity or on human capital.

This layered framework allows us to understand resilience through multiple lenses. Here, we lay out how this approach can be used to assess the resilience of a model portfolio to physical climate risk.

Read more: Resilience as a framework for sustainability

– Author: Rick Lord, Head of Research and Innovation, S&P Global Energy.

– This contribution is brought to you by S&P Global Energy, a valued Silver sponsor of Building Bridges 2026.