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SAN MATEO, CA, March 25, 2026 — Jupiter Intelligence, the global standard for extreme weather risk and adaptation analytics, today announced a research partnership with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to assess cross-border climate risk across the minerals-energy-food (MEF) complex – the interconnected systems of resource extraction, production, and trade that underpin the global economy.
The collaboration applies Jupiter's ClimateScore Global platform, made available to SEI through The Jupiter Promise, to SEI's newly published MEF complex framework, which examines how climate hazards propagate across mineral, energy, and food supply chains in ways that current analytical tools fail to capture.
In a first phase of work, Jupiter's flood data is being applied to a case study of cross-border climate risk for energy transition minerals, mapping exposure across mine sites, processing facilities, and embedded trade flows. A parallel workstream will integrate flood risk data from ClimateScore Global into a broader global analysis of climate risk across the full MEF complex.
The energy transition is placing unprecedented demand on critical minerals such as copper, cobalt, and lithium – resources concentrated in a small number of countries and exposed to mounting physical climate risk.
SEI's recent concept paper, Introducing the Minerals-Energy-Food Complex, identifies how risks originating at extraction, processing, or transport sites can cascade through global supply chains, affecting commodity prices, food security, and the pace of the energy transition itself. Understanding and quantifying that exposure requires data that is both globally comprehensive and locally precise.
“Physical climate risk doesn't stop at national borders, and neither do mineral, energy, and food supply chains,” said Frida Lager, Research Associate, SEI. “To understand how risks propagate through these systems – from a mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or Indonesia, to a battery factory in China to an electric vehicle on a road in Europe – we need data that matches that geographic scale and scientific rigor, which this collaboration with Jupiter will provide us with.”
“Physical risk is capital risk – and increasingly, it's also a supply chain risk, a geopolitical risk, and an energy transition risk,” said Rich Sorkin, co-founder and CEO, Jupiter Intelligence. “SEI's work on the MEF complex captures exactly the kind of systemic, cross-border exposure that institutions need to understand: how a climate event at a mine site in the DRC can cascade through global trade flows and land on a balance sheet in London or New York. ClimateScore Global was built to quantify that kind of risk at scale, and we're proud to put it to work on a research agenda this consequential."
ClimateScore Global covers 22.3 billion locations worldwide, with more than 22,000 metrics per location across nine modeled perils, including flood, heat, drought, and tropical cyclones. The platform's peer-reviewed, transparent methodology makes it suited for research applications requiring defensible, decision-grade inputs.
About Jupiter Intelligence
Jupiter Intelligence equips leading organizations to translate extreme weather risk into strategic advantage — quantified, benchmarked, and integrated into core operations. Our transparent, scenario-based analytics integrate seamlessly into capital planning, operational strategy, and adaptation investments, helping decision-makers act with confidence on science that stands up to scrutiny and defend every decision to boards, regulators, and stakeholders.
Through The Jupiter Promise, Jupiter makes its climate risk analytics available at little to no cost to under-resourced communities, researchers, and public interest organizations worldwide, with a commitment to ensuring that access to high-quality climate risk data is not limited by financial constraints.
To learn more, visit www.jupiterintel.com
About Stockholm Environment Institute
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) is an international non-profit research institute that tackles climate, environment and sustainable development challenges. The organization empowers partners to meet these challenges through cutting-edge research, knowledge, tools and capacity building. Through SEI’s HQ and seven centres around the world, it engages with policy, practice and development action for a sustainable, prosperous future for all.
To learn more, visit www.sei.org.
For more information:
Brian Czarny, Chief Marketing Officer, Jupiter Intelligence, brian@jupiterintel.com
Ulrika Lamberth, Senior Press Officer, SEI, ulrika.lamberth@sei.org, +46 73 801 7053
