AlphaGeo versus the Market: Climate Risk and Resilience Index (CRRI)
Summary
Unlike existing products focused purely on climate physical risk, AlphaGeo's Climate Risk and Resilience Index (CRRI) is a unique two-in-one scoring suite of (1) Physical Risk and (2) Resilience-adjusted Risk. Together, these deliver risk and resilience assessments at scale. Furthermore, AlphaGeo is much more than a "defensive" climate risk data provider. We are also a predictive location analytics platform with an "offensive" toolkit that includes Climate Financial Impact Metrics, Location Signals, and other bespoke metrics useful for investment strategy and portfolio construction.
How we differentiate
(1) Resilience-Adjusted Risk Methodology: a two-in-one scoring suite comprising physical risk and resilience that captures the "ground truth"
Unlike traditional approaches to physical risk, CRRI uses a unique Resilience-Adjusted Risk Methodology that accounts for local adaptation measures (or the lackthereof) that offset climate hazards, thus providing a “ground-truth” view on the likely real-world impact of climate change. Our approach helps users go beyond assessing risk to guide remediation measures, make strategic decisions, and promote overall resilience.
| What our competitors provide | How AlphaGeo differentiates |
|---|---|
| Climate physical risk scores | Two-in-one scoring suite comprising:
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(2) Global adaptation layer: a unique dataset of local adaptation measures that underpins our resilience-adjusted scores
Underpinning our Resilience-adjusted Risk Scores is the Global Adaptation Layer, a unique dataset of globally consistent, hyperlocal geospatial data layers on the adaptation capacity of any coordinate on earth, enabling "ground truth” analysis of climate resilience down to the neighborhood or asset level.
| What our competitors provide | How AlphaGeo differentiates |
|---|---|
| (1) Risk data used for development of physical risk scores | (1) Risk data used for development of Physical Risk Scores (2) Adaptation data used for development of Resilience-adjusted Risk Scores |
(3) Go beyond climate risk: predictive location analytics for defensive and offensive use cases
| What our competitors provide | How AlphaGeo differentiates |
|---|---|
| 1) Climate physical risk scores and underlying data | (1) CRRI (2) Financial Impact Analytics |
AlphaGeo vs. the market
| Feature | AlphaGeo | Jupiter Intelligence | Climate X | First Street |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate physical risk scores | true | true | true | true |
| Underlying risk data | true | true | true | true |
| Resilience-adjusted risk scores | true | false | false | false |
| Underlying resilience (i.e., adaptation capacity) data | true | false | false | false |
| Global coverage | true | true | true | true |
| Near-term (2030) | true | true | true | true |
| Mid-term (2050) | true | true | true | true |
| Long-term (2100) | true | true | true | true |
| [Financial impact] Expected asset losses (e.g., CVaR) | false | true | true | true |
[Financial impact] Climate impact on cashflows (Link to Product) | true | false | false | false |