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Indicators
More than 300 Global Change and Sustainability Indicators provide an in-depth understanding of our Earth systems, and the risks and opportunities they provide. Drill through layers of data to access deeper, more detailed insights and analysis covering any location across the globe.
Foresight
PaaS-based predictive analytics developed from Earth systems models deliver historical, current, and future data, covering any location worldwide.
Insight Services
Insight Services help you maximize the use of our Integrated Planetary Intelligence™ Platform. Work with our team of global experts to determine your needs, key locations and gain detailed insights specific to your investment and company developments.
Indicators in Action
A merger and acquisition event takes place on a portfolio, bringing new assets in the Netherlands into the picture. The fund manager re-evaluates the portfolio’s positions to determine the overall impact.
Undertaking a simple climate risk stress test on the new assets would likely flag them as being high risk. Much of the Netherlands sits below sea level, making large parts of the country susceptible to flooding. An analysis based purely on climate change would therefore present bias which, in most cases, would encourage the fund manager to drop the assets in a bid to save costs in the long run.
However, if you take a step back and consider all the other interacting facets of global change at play, it quickly becomes apparent that there is much more to this story.
Earth Knowledge’s Indicators give true context and insight to business decision-making, looking far beyond climate change alone. They consider primary direct indicators – climate, temperature, precipitation, wind and sea level rise – combined with secondary direct and indirect indicators – surface water runoff, chronic flooding, coastal and bay/estuary flooding; and geology and landscape terrain.
By looking at climate change with enlightening geological and landscape terrain context, the assets in the Netherlands can be seen in a truer light. That’s because the indicators show how the land has been redesigned to withstand sea level rise: a result of the ongoing natural solutions being implemented to restore and sustain the country’s coastal areas and mitigate damage.
The result is a comprehensive view of exactly how all these factors interconnect to provide an accurate insight into the position of the assets. It allows the fund manager to see past the bias, identify the opportunities and make smarter investment decisions.
