The ClimateAi Blog

Introduction to Climate Risk Assessment for Investment Portfolios: A Q&A with Daniel E. Ingram

Last year we sent Daniel E. Ingram, the Vice President of Responsible Investment Research & Consulting at Wilshire Associates, a series of questions by email to find out how institutional investors...

Lucas Joppa of Microsoft’s AI for Earth

Asked to describe AI for Earth and his role at the company, Joppa spoke of the program’s key areas of focus. “AI for Earth is a cross-company program at Microsoft that works across all of our...

Lessons from the 2008 World Food Crisis

At the brink of a global food crisis in 2008, Ed Schafer, a businessman and politician from North Dakota was appointed to lead the United States Department of Agriculture. Before joining the U.S. Cabinet,...

The Impact of Floods on Agriculture in the U.S. — Taking a Look Under the Hood

Floods are the costliest natural hazard, affecting the greatest number of people worldwide, and they have caused the largest portion of insured losses among all the natural catastrophes in recent decades....

ClimateAi Leadership Presents on Climate Change and Seasonal Forecasting at AGU and NeurIPS

Last year, ClimateAi participated in two research conferences: the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting and the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Tackling Climate Change...

Why Being a Farmer in India Is Only Getting Harder — The Curious Case of Potatoes

Globally, the annual volatility of crop yields as well as crop quality and safety (contamination, pathogen, etc.) depend on the annual variability of climate, even more so in India where only 12% of the...

Developing Resilience to Climate Extremes for Strawberries

California produces over 90% of the nation’s strawberries. That amounts to $2.3 billion of economic value and ranking as one of the state’s top 10 crops. With growing seasons in some parts of the...

Key Takeaways and Insights from the World Economic Forum: Trends, Goals, and Strategy

The world came together once again for the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. Under the theme of ‘Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World’, the public sector met with NGOs, individuals,...

A Very Brief History of Seasonal Climate Forecasting for Agriculture

Farmers have searched for ways to predict weather and climate since the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago. Weather is the short-term fluctuation (i.e. from seconds to weeks) in variables like temperature,...