Private Sector Partnerships
As the impact of climate change accelerates, understanding accurate science is increasingly crucial when deciding where to invest, how to plan around a changing hazard, or how to price risk for years down the line.
For over 40 years, Woodwell science has informed decisions made by governments, communities, and international institutions confronting a changing climate. Increasingly, we are working to ensure science is informing decisions made by private sector partners in business too. Our core mission is to put rigorous, independent climate science into the hands of decision-makers, and today, many of those decision-makers sit in the private sector.
40+
Years informing climate decisions
Independent
Scientists first, not a data vendor
Peer-reviewed
Methods documented and open to scrutiny
Direct access
Work with the scientists who build the models
Why Woodwell
We are scientists first, not a data vendor. Woodwell provides more than data or a risk score. Our partners work directly with the scientists who design the analysis, develop the models, and interpret the findings. Methods we use in partnership arrangements are also published and peer-reviewed for public and policy audiences, so our data, assumptions, and models are documented and open to scrutiny.
Commercial risk intelligence is often proprietary where you get a score without a clear view into the reasoning and assumptions behind it. Our assumptions and methods are transparent allowing your team to ensure you’re working with the most accurate data possible while also understanding where uncertainty remains, and how the findings should inform your decisions.
Services
Anticipate climate conditions at seasonal timescales ahead with regional or asset-level outlooks for drought, precipitation, and related hazards, downscaled to specific regions and/or assets.
Example Work to understand how forecasted conditions over 12-months will impact crop productivity for agricultural commodities in key production regions
For funds holding real assets over long time horizons (e.g., timberland, agriculture, infrastructure, real estate), rigorously measure climate hazard, likelihood, severity, and how it shifts, and translate that hazard into impact on revenue, operations, and asset value. We leverage our proprietary climate risk platform to model hazard at the asset and portfolio level across multiple warming scenarios, then our scientists translate what that hazard means for revenue, operations and asset value.
Example Work to price how shifts in tropical cyclone, precipitation, wildfire, and drought risk through 2050 will impact revenue and asset value for a timberland portfolio across the southern US
For investors evaluating climate technology companies, verify whether a company's underlying scientific or technological claims hold up, checking the methodology, data, and real-world evidence
Example Work with a venture fund to independently verify the scientific and technical claims of a climate risk analytics company under investment consideration
Translate coarse, global-scale climate model output into high-resolution, location-specific projections for organizations building climate data products, tools, or platforms that current data cannot support
Example Downscale CMIP5 temperature and precipitation output to sub-10km resolution for a specific region, preserving the physical relationships between variables that other regridding methods can miss
Partners
We’ve worked with organizations across finance, insurance, real estate, and agriculture to bring climate science into decisions with real consequences. Here’s a sample of the organizations that we’ve worked with in the past:
Contact
Tell us what you’re trying to plan for or better understand (a season, an asset, a decision) and we’ll get in touch within a few business days on whether we can help and what it would take.
