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Jupiter Intelligence uses human and artificial intelligence to help companies look into the future and see the potential impact of climate change on their businesses. “The world needs that kind of information,” says CEO Rich Sorkin. “The world is not moving fast enough to reduce climate change. The impact of climate change is getting worse every year.”

Jupiter, a climate advisory group, recently showed me the type of modeling it is performing for banks and insurance companies in the US. Using a synthetic portfolio of 100,000 residential mortgages in southern Florida — based on the exposure of a real bank — Jupiter forecasts a tripling of losses from flood damage in the next couple of decades.

The Weather Channel talks to our CEO about how merging climate models, high definition mapping, and cloud computing can help businesses add climate change predictions to their investment decisions.

One company that specializes in Earth observation is Jupiter Intelligence. It provides services to help customers understand how they will be affected by changes in the Earth system such as climate change. We spoke to Rich Sorkin, Jupiter’s CEO, to learn more about the firm.

CNBC spotlights Jupiter in an interview with CEO Rich Sorkin for its Rising Risk series on climate change. “If you were a major corporation 10 years ago and somebody said ‘cyber risk,’ chances were a lot of people would say, ‘What’s that?’ Now every large entity on the planet, business, financial services, governments, they are managing to cyber risks. It’s just a fundamental part of their business,” Sorkin said. “And the same thing will be true with risk from severe weather, accounting for the climate change that’s already occurred and is inevitably coming over the next several years as well.”

Two-year-old Jupiter Intelligence…combines weather data with information about an area’s environment and terrain to create “climate risk assessments.” Any company with a warehouse in a low-lying area wants to know how many square feet it might lose to sea-level rise and when that loss might happen. The company’s insurer wants to know that too.

If you run a business, or maintain a city, or plan power plants or highways or bridges, you’d like to know how bad things are, and how bad they’re going to get. That’s what Jupiter and other “climate services” companies sell. Jupiter explicitly incorporates climate change into its models for catastrophe risk, both proprietary and public, and then offers that knowledge to the kind of people who might lose money when the floods, fires, storms, and heat waves really kick in.

AI and supercomputing are rapidly shifting the way disaster planners, regulators and insurers gauge climate hazards. “I would say the last two years have represented dramatic change that vastly exceeded even our expectations about how things would evolve,” said Rich Sorkin, chief executive officer of Jupiter Intelligence, a Silicon Valley-based firm staffed by senior scientists and engineers from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, NOAA, the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Rich Sorkin, chief executive officer for the analytics firm Jupiter Intelligence saw the writing on the wall 10 years ago. That’s when he founded a company he named Zeus to do 30-day forecasts for the power sector and commodity traders, using the then-nascent trend in enterprise computing. “For a variety of reasons we were a bit too early,” Sorkin said. But the effort served as a “warm-up” for what’s now Jupiter, born in 2017. Since then, Sorkin has assembled a roster of climate science all-stars including Josh Hacker from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Elizabeth Weatherhead, a specialist in arctic climate, and Alan Blumberg, a researcher in how coastal cities and their oceans get along. The goal: Provide clients with local weather projections on time scales ranging from hours to decades.

Jupiter Adaptation Hub becomes the first platform to deliver audit-ready adaptation ROI using real resilience construction economics—purpose-built for capital allocators.

Arcadis, the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets, today announced the launch of its global strategic partnership with Jupiter Intelligence, a global leader for extreme weather risk and adaptation analytics.

Natcap and Jupiter Intelligence have joined forces to deliver an integrated approach for assessing physical climate and nature risks. The collaboration leverages Jupiter’s trusted physical climate risk analytics alongside Natcap’s expertise in nature risk, delivering decision-grade insights that enable businesses to measure, report, and manage their climate and nature risks within a unified risk framework.

JLL (NYSE: JLL) today announced it is expanding a strategic collaboration with Jupiter Intelligence to integrate climate analytics capabilities into its Risk Advisory platform. This upgraded platform addresses a growing demand as property owners, investors and lenders continue to recognize the impacts of climate risks on financial returns across their portfolios.

Backed by Jupiter’s Gold Standard Climate Science, Institutions Can Now Assess Climate Exposure, Measure Financial Impact, and Quantify Adaptation ROI Anywhere in the World

Jupiter, the trusted leader in climate risk analytics, today announced the launch of Jupiter AI, a new generative AI agent that revolutionizes the way businesses predict their financial exposure to the physical risks of climate change.‍

The Nature Conservancy Colombia y Jupiter Intelligence se unen con Organizaciones de Pueblos Indígenas y Comunidades Locales de la cuenca del río Caquetá impulsando decisiones informadas y empoderando a la comunidad para participar activamente en la definición de estrategias para un futuro sostenible.

Jupiter, the trusted leader in climate risk analytics, announced its renewed partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Colombia, as part of The Jupiter Promise program. This collaboration aims to leverage expertise and combine efforts to cocreate strategies that address the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities within the vital, diverse and culturally rich Amazon region.

Jupiter, the trusted leader in climate risk analytics, today announced that as part of The Jupiter Promise program, it has partnered with the Institute of Himalayan Risk Reduction (IHRR), to help identify changing risks from extreme weather events and the impacts they pose to vulnerable communities across Nepal.