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This is the (preliminary) dataset for firm-level climate change adaptation.

It contains the following comments:

  • path: a unique identifier that stores the path of the file that was used to create the scores.
  • cik: unique firm identifier.
  • year: year of the report.
  • date: publishing date of the report.
  • num_paragraphs: number of paragraphs in the report.
  • num_words: number of words in the report.
  • Storm, Flood, Heatwave, Drought, Wildfire, Coldwave: share of paragraphs mentioning extreme weather types, scaled by 1000. Classifier models developed in Schimanski et al. 2026.
  • phyiscal_risk: share of paragraphs mentioning these physical climate risks, scaled by 1000. Classifier models developed in Koelbel et al. 2022.
  • adaptation, action, solution, risk_assessment, physical_protection, adaptive_operations, risk_transfer: share of paragraphs mentioning adaptation (sub-)categories, scaled by 1000. See the paper for more details.

If you use the data, cite the paper:

@article{Schimanski26adaptation,
    title={{Firm-level Climate Change Adaptation}},
    author={Tobias Schimanski},
    year={2026},
    journal={Available on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6710044},
}