Insights That Turn Climate Risk Data into Resilience

CMIP7 Is Here: What's Changed, What It Means, and Why It's Not Ready for Risk Decisions Yet

The seventh phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP7) is underway. For climate scientists, it represents years of coordinated effort to improve how the global modeling community simulates Earth's future. For climate risk practitioners, it raises an immediate and practical question: should we be updating our risk assessments right now?

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The Scenario Trap: Why Climate Risk Analysis Can't Afford to Pick a Lane

The Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects - CMIP5, CMIP6, and now the emerging CMIP7 - have given risk practitioners an extraordinary scientific resource. But understanding what these frameworks were actually built to do is essential to using them correctly. The consequences of misusing them are not abstract. They can lead organizations to systematically underestimate the physical climate risks embedded in their portfolios, infrastructure, and supply chains.

Did Your Model See This Coming?: The Science Behind a Question We're Always Asked

Climate model verification and validation is widely misunderstood — and those misunderstandings have real consequences. Jupiter's rigorous, transparent process runs dozens of checks across 251 trillion data values, earning ClimateScore Global™ passage through Tier 1 bank Model Risk Management validation and enabling confident, decision-ready climate risk analytics at scale.

The Coming Tide: AMOC Collapse and Coastal Economic Shock

Evidence is growing that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) may be approaching a tipping point that, if reached, could lead to an abrupt collapse by the mid-21st century. This low-probability but high-consequence event is projected to cause a non-linear surge in sea levels along the U.S. East Coast, resulting in a systemic financial shock that doubles expected flood exposure in major metropolitan areas.

Beyond Disclosure: Addressing the Precision Gap in Climate Risk Management

Mandatory climate disclosures have successfully raised awareness, but relying on aggregated data presents significant challenges for asset-level financial decisions. To navigate the climate transition effectively, financial institutions must supplement high-level scenarios with hyper-granular, high-resolution modeling to accurately assess their physical tail risks.

Jupiter Releases Improved Flood Risk Modeling

With the latest release of ClimateScore™ Global (v3.3), Jupiter introduces several important updates to our flood modeling capabilities. In keeping with our commitment to continuous improvement, this release enhances digital elevation model (DEM) data and expands global flood defense coverage, strengthening our ability to represent complex terrain, characterize urban flood risk, and provide more precise assessments of defended areas. All of these improvements are immediately available in Jupiter MetricEngine’s targeted flood analytics.