Leading organizations across sectors rely on Jupiter
Jupiter provides the broadest range of analytics offerings to both private and public sector organizations critically impacted by climate change. Our solutions are used for capital planning, enterprise and portfolio risk management, infrastructure resilience engineering, pricing and underwriting, safety and operations, and shareholder and regulatory response.
Jupiter’s solutions detail the impact of flooding, wildfires, extreme heat, drought, wind, and precipitation and offer spatial resolutions from the portfolio level down to the street. They cover future time horizons from one hour to 80 years. Jupiter insights can be delivered via geospatial web-based applications, APIs, or reports.
Jupiter provides physical risk climate analytics to at least one of the world’s five largest firms in asset management, banking, insurance, oil and gas, mining, power, and construction, as well as the United States government.
Our solutions address use cases from enterprise risk management and portfolio planning to long-term resilience engineering and immediate emergency response.
Insurance
Jupiter solutions for insurers offer both portfolio- and asset-level climate risk analytics that can impact critical processes from portfolio planning to risk avoidance to underwriting, pricing, and product development.
Use Cases
Portfolio planning
- Incorporate climate analytics into portfolio and reinsurance decisions
- Identify regions and lines of business that may become less economically viable to insure, invest in, and operate in
Underwriting and pricing
- Improve underwriting guidelines to improve risk selection
- Integrate short- and long-term hazards into pricing
- Design and bring to market insurance products that are triggered by adverse climate conditions
Investing
- Understand how climate change will affect expenses and exit values for long-held real-estate assets
- Incorporate climate risk into market value analysis
Risk avoidance
- Help customers minimize impacts of climate risk through risk engineering and resiliency insights
- Offer solutions to companies who have invested in mitigation
Regulatory response
- Provide quantitative and qualitative responses to shareholder questions and national regulatory requirements, as physical climate risk disclosure reporting becomes mandatory
—Lael Brainard, Federal Reserve Board Governor, Chair of the Committee on Financial Stability
Related Resources
- Special Report: Mandatory Climate Disclosures a Jupiter Special Report
- Jupiter and CMIP6: Unlocking the Next Generation of Global Climate Models Jupiter’s science insights
- Jupiter Raises Additional Capital from Liberty Mutual, MS&AD, and SYSTEMIQ press release
- Jupiter Recognized as One of Three Companies to Win Zurich Insurance Innovation Competition press release
- A Deluge of Risk…and a Looming Crisis a Jupiter Special Report
- Climate Gentrification and the Role of Flood Insurance Jupiter in action
Banking
The scope and granularity of Jupiter solutions capture the most complete view of climate risk across the globe and across time, allowing banks and financial services firms to project: how a portfolio of assets may be affected by climate change; the perils it will be exposed to; vulnerable segments and locations; and how that risk will change over time and across varying carbon emissions scenarios. With this knowledge, firms can incorporate climate risk into their overall enterprise risk management strategy to respond to increasing demands from regulators and shareholders, and to disclose under TCFD.
Use Cases
Portfolio planning
- Understand the safety of a mortgage asset over the mortgage’s expected life cycle
- Rebalance investment portfolios in direct response to climate signals
- Identify climate risk in critical supply chains and distribution networks
Underwriting and deal structuring
- Integrate both short- and long-term perils into pricing and mortgage-backed securities structuring (e.g., assemble MBS tranches with low climate risk)
- Define goals for green bonds and climate bonds
Market value analysis
- Understand how climate change could impact asset values, real estate, and securities risk
- Develop mitigation and exploitation strategies
Risk avoidance
- Help clients minimize impacts of climate change risk through risk engineering insights
Regulatory response
- Provide quantitative and qualitative responses to shareholder questions and national regulatory requirements, as physical climate risk disclosure reporting becomes mandatory
Related Resources
- Special Report: Mandatory Climate Disclosures a Jupiter Special Report
- Jupiter and CMIP6: Unlocking the Next Generation of Global Climate Models Jupiter’s science insights
- A Deluge of Risk…and a Looming Crisis a Jupiter Special Report
- ClimateScore Global™ Overview for Financial Services product overview
Asset Management
Use Cases
Risk management
- Quantify and optimize both real asset and financial asset value exposure to physical climate risk across global portfolios using standard identifiers such as CUSIP and FIGI
- Understand supply chain risk to portfolio companies
Corporate guidance
- Demand more detailed risk disclosures. Understand when to require a more comprehensive assessment and disclosure of climate risk from portfolio holdings
- Persuade corporations, senior executives, and boards to take action
Portfolio planning
- Understand portfolio exposure to physical climate risk
- Understand individual securities exposure to physical climate risk
- Key input to create and manage sustainable and green funds
—CNBC
Related Resources
- Special Report: Mandatory Climate Disclosures a Jupiter Special Report
- Jupiter and CMIP6: Unlocking the Next Generation of Global Climate Models Jupiter’s science insights
- ClimateScore Global™ Overview for Financial Services product overview
- ClimateScore™ Planning Overview product overview
Real Estate
Use Cases
Portfolio planning
- Incorporate climate risk into new market evaluations, acquisition assessments, and long-term planning
- Target investment opportunities while avoiding locations projected to be outside their risk tolerance
Underwriting and deal structuring
- Integrate both short-term and long-term perils into pricing and REIT structuring, such as assembling REITs with low climate risk
Risk avoidance
- Allocate capital to improve the long-term resiliency and lower the insurance costs of specific developments
Regulatory response
- Provide quantitative and qualitative responses to regulatory and shareholder questions
Related Resources
- Special Report: Mandatory Climate Disclosures a Jupiter Special Report
- A Deluge of Risk…and a Looming Crisis a Jupiter Special Report
- ClimateScore Global™ Overview for Retail, Industrial, Power, Utility, & Real Estate product overview
- ClimateScore™ Planning Overview product overview
- Climate Gentrification and the Role of Flood Insurance Jupiter in action
Energy
Jupiter’s high-resolution climate risk analysis of infrastructure—including electrical generation, transmission, and distribution systems; oil and gas refineries, pipelines, and storage facilities—provide asset-level insights enabling our customers to better identity the need, location, and timing of climate resilience investments. Electric utilities also use Jupiter’s analytics for operations, regulatory, and community engagement purposes as a part of a comprehensive Integrated Grid Planning process.
Use Cases
Risk identification
- Identify future physical risk at the asset level over the lifetime of the facility
- Identify value-at-risk to future climate scenarios
Risk management
- Incorporate the expected effects of climate risk on revenue, capital and operating expenses, productivity and reliability of service, and overall profitability
Risk engineering
- Strategize capital deployment for relocated facilities and resiliency improvements at critical facilities and assets that are most at risk
- Incorporate into asset hardening, resilience planning, fire prevention, and other key processes
Market opportunities
- Better understand how changing customer needs, value chains, and emerging generation sources, such as renewables, solar, wind, etc., can be leveraged for new opportunities
- Optimize the productivity of generation assets such as wind farms by installing them in areas that will remain advantageous even as the climate changes
Regulatory, shareholder, and stakeholder response
- Provide quantitative and qualitative responses to questions from regulators and important customer constituencies
Related Resources
- Grids Turn to High-Resolution Climate Analytics as a Strategic Tool for Resiliency Planning a Jupiter Special Report
- Physical Climate Risks Present Significant Risk for Utility Grid Infrastructure a Jupiter Special Report
- An Analysis of Three Bayport Petrochemical Facilities a Jupiter Special Report
- Uncovering New Risks from Extreme Floods to Electric Substations in Harris County, TX a Jupiter Special Report
- Jupiter Contributes to Con Edison’s Industry-Leading Climate Risk Analysis Jupiter in action
- ClimateScore Global™ Overview for Retail, Industrial, Power, Utility, & Real Estate product overview
- ClimateScore™ Planning Overview product overview
Manufacturing
Use Cases
Risk identification
- Identify future physical risk at the asset level over the lifetime of the facility
- Identify value-at-risk to future climate scenarios
Risk management
- Incorporate the expected effects of climate risk on revenue, capital and operating expenses, productivity and reliability of service, and overall profitability
- Manage supply-chain risk
Risk engineering
- Strategize capital deployment for relocated facilities and resiliency improvements at critical facilities and assets that are most at risk
- Incorporate physical risk analysis into asset hardening, resilience planning, fire prevention, and other key processes.
Related Resources
- Climate Risk: A Black Swan No More Jupiter’s science insights
- ClimateScore Global™ Overview for Retail, Industrial, Power, Utility, & Real Estate product overview
- ClimateScore™ Planning Overview product overview
Retail
Use Cases
Risk management
- Improve supply chain resilience by identifying climate risk in the company’s physical assets as well as supplier and distribution networks
Resilience engineering
- Avoid closures and physical damage by retrofitting existing assets
- Plan backup electrical power scenarios
Resilience planning
- Develop superior incident response plans
- Determine new areas for expansion to stay ahead of changing climate risk
Related Resources
- Climate Risk: A Black Swan No More Jupiter’s science insights
- ClimateScore Global™ Overview for Retail, Industrial, Power, Utility, & Real Estate product overview
- ClimateScore™ Planning Overview product overview
Agriculture
Use Cases
Resiliency planning
- Plan for changing growing seasons
- Prioritize capital investment in improving physical infrastructure (for example, irrigation and drainage systems, processing centers, warehouses)
Market opportunities
- While some regions are becoming increasingly hostile to particular crops as the climate changes, others are becoming more optimal
Related Resources
- Climate Risk: A Black Swan No More Jupiter’s science insights
- ClimateScore™ Planning Overview product overview
Public Sector
Local, regional, and national government entities, from municipalities, counties, and states to huge and essential cabinet-level organizations such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, need a superior understanding of potential climate risk for emergency response planning, resilience engineering, post-event recovery operations, and other potentially life-saving functions. Jupiter offers both portfolio-level analyses of climate risk, and very-high-resolution assessments of risk to specific neighborhoods, buildings, and assets from flooding, heat, wind, and fire.
Use Cases
Risk identification
- Develop detailed vulnerability assessments to project the true physical risk to climate perils at both macro and micro levels
Citizen communication and engagement
- Create two-way dialogues among key constituencies that inform and improve emergency preparedness and response plans
Risk and resiliency planning
- Develop superior emergency response plans to improve public safety, public health, and overall resilience
- Improve development and redevelopment planning, locating key infrastructure in areas less prone to physical risk from climate change
- Examine and, where needed, change critical infrastructure design specifications
- Allocate capital for high priority resilience initiatives
Related Resources
- Broward County, Florida: Improving Resilience to Future Extreme Precipitation Events Jupiter in action
- New York City: Strengthening Resilience in Storm- and Wastewater Systems Jupiter in action
- The Danger in Relying on FEMA Flood Maps for Risk Management a Jupiter Special Report
NGO
Jupiter works with NGOs to bring our solutions to underserved communities throughout the world. The company’s philosophy is to use funding from investors to develop profitable solutions for corporations and wealthy countries while making the same solutions available to underserved communities at cost. To date, Jupiter has partnered with the Moore Foundation, SYSTEMIQ, and research companies to assess climate gentrification in South Florida, provide fire prediction to small towns in California, and explore greater resilience in southeast Asia. We remain eager to do more.
Use Cases
Risk identification
- Develop detailed vulnerability assessments to project the true physical risk of climate perils to regions, countries, and local populations
Risk and resiliency planning
- Offer physical climate risk analysis to help public policymakers, the private sector, and the citizenry to better address the short- to long-term impacts of climate change on public health and safety, economies, and quality of life
- Develop superior emergency response plans to improve public safety, public health, and overall resilience
- Improve development and redevelopment planning, locating key infrastructure in areas less prone to physical risk from climate change
- Examine and, where needed, change critical infrastructure design specifications
- Allocate capital for high priority resilience initiatives
“Jupiter’s world-leading physical risk analytics are critical to building resilience and safeguarding climate-vulnerable economies for decades to come.”
—Irena Spazzapan, Partner and Investment Lead, SYSTEMIQ