Climate & Decisions, Aera launch climate decision intelligence solution

Climate & Decisions and Aera Technology have launched Climate Decision Intelligence, a product designed to help organisations turn climate and sustainability information into business decisions.

The offering combines Climate & Decisions' advisory work in climate risk, governance and operating models with Aera's decision intelligence software platform. It enters a market in which companies are collecting more climate data through emissions reporting, supplier assessments, transition plans and risk analysis, while facing pressure to show how that information shapes day-to-day commercial choices.

At launch, the product includes five pre-defined decision tools focused on supply chain resilience, carbon-aware promotion, carbon budget optimisation, supplier risk and sustainable sourcing. The tools are intended to connect climate-related signals with financial and operational context, assess response options, and route recommendations to business owners for approval, modification or escalation.

The announcement reflects a wider shift in corporate climate work. Many organisations have built reporting processes for disclosure and compliance but have struggled to connect those exercises to pricing, procurement, logistics, inventory and sourcing decisions that affect revenue, margins and service levels.

Climate-related disruption has become a more immediate operational issue for many sectors, particularly in supply chains. Extreme weather events, regulatory shifts and changes in supplier performance can force companies to weigh cost, resilience and emissions trade-offs at short notice.

Climate Decision Intelligence is intended to make those trade-offs more explicit. In practice, a climate event affecting a supplier, a breach of an internal carbon budget, or a deterioration in a supplier's sustainability rating could trigger a recommendation within an existing business process.

Initial focus

The first of the five tools, supply chain resilience, is intended to help companies protect product availability and service levels when climate events disrupt suppliers, transport routes or stock positions. Another, carbon-aware promotion, is designed to identify changes in product mix or campaign planning that reduce emissions while taking margin and availability into account.

Carbon budget optimisation focuses on situations in which emissions move outside an agreed budget and recommends adjustments. Supplier risk links sustainability performance to commercial exposure and flags when escalation is needed, while sustainable sourcing compares sourcing options across cost, carbon footprint, service, capacity and risk.

Each tool can either generate a recommendation for review by a named business owner or support automated execution where a company permits it. The system also keeps a record of context, actions and outcomes to create an audit trail and a history of earlier decisions.

That auditability is likely to matter for companies adapting to more formal climate disclosure standards. Businesses are under increasing pressure to show not only that they can identify climate-related risks and opportunities, but also that governance processes link those issues to strategy and financial performance.

The companies pointed specifically to IFRS S2-aligned disclosure requirements as part of the backdrop to the launch. Those rules have raised expectations that climate reporting should connect to board oversight, capital allocation and operational decision-making rather than remain a standalone reporting function.

Aera, founded in 2017, has built its business around what is widely referred to as decision intelligence software. Its systems are used to analyse operational data, generate recommendations and automate some choices under defined governance settings.

Climate & Decisions, based in Australia, works with boards and management teams on climate disclosure, risk assessment, scenario analysis, transition planning and governance. The partnership gives it a software route for clients that want to embed climate factors in repeatable business decisions rather than address them only through advisory projects.

Thierry Lotrian outlined the problem the firms say they are trying to address.

"The market does not need another climate dashboard. It needs a faster, more governed path from climate signals to business action. A climate event, carbon-budget deviation or drop in supplier sustainability performance can quickly become a revenue, service, margin and risk decision. Every climate decision is ultimately a business decision, and this solution embeds climate intelligence into the decisions that shape enterprise performance, while keeping judgement, ownership and accountability with the business," said Thierry Lotrian, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Climate & Decisions.

Rajeev Mitroo said the commercial test is whether climate information improves decisions rather than simply adding to reporting workloads.

"Organisations have invested significantly in climate data, risk analysis and sustainability reporting, but the real value comes when that intelligence improves a business decision. This is a practical example of agentic decision intelligence helping businesses move from climate ambition to measurable action," said Mitroo.

Organisations can begin with a single repeatable use case and configure decision rules, data inputs and approval paths around their own operations, while business owners retain control over recommendations and actions.