Earth Knowledge News
Earth Knowledge Leadership Present at City and Financial Global 3rd Annual Sustainability Reporting Standards
Earth Knowledge’s Julia Armstrong D'Agnese, CEO and Co-Founder, and Frank D'Agnese, President, CTO and Co-Founder were honored to present in London at City & Financial Global’s 3rd Annual Sustainability Reporting Summit on January 2024 on “Earth Knowledge Case Studies: Climate-related physical risk from identification to mitigation and management”. They presented alongside leadership from the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Principle for Responsible Investment (PRI), CDP, WWF, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP FI), GFANZ, IOSCO.
Three members of Earth Knowledge’s Science Council coauthored the recently released Fifth National Climate Assessment: Dr. Anne Marie Stoner, Dr. Kenneth Kunkel, and Dr. Don Wuebbles.
This assessment of the science of climate change and its potential impacts on the American people is required by the U.S. Congress under the 1990 Global Change Act. The new study further amplifies what has been found by prior national and international assessments, namely that climate change is one of the most important issues humanity has ever faced.
Earth Knowledge Climate Science Team Co-Authored the 5th US National Climate Assessment
Earth Knowledge Climate Science Leader Presents Critical Innovative Downscaling Model at The White House’s USGCRP Interagency Group
“Dr. Anne Stoner, Principal, Earth Systems Modelling Analyst for Earth Knowledge, a leader in climate data innovation, presented the STAR-ESDM (Statistical Trends and Analysis of Residuals – Empirical Statistical Downscaling Model) statistical downscaling technique and products at “Understanding Decision-Relevant Regional Climate Projections Workshop” in Berkeley, CA on November 14.
The workshop is coordinated by The White House's US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Interagency Group on Integrative Modeling (IGIM) and the Federal Adaptation and Resilience Group (FARG) with participation by several major federal agencies as well as scientists and data users.
The workshop enabled the development of guidelines for production, evaluation, and utilization of high-resolution regional climate projections.
Earth Knowledge Fireside Chat hosted by the London Stock Exchange Group
Earth Knowledge’s Fireside Chat, "Climate Change and Nature Loss: New Approaches to Target Adaptation of UK Infrastructure" is Thursday, October 5 from 4:00 to 5:00PM (BST) at the London Stock Exchange Group in person and via webinar.
The session will be moderated by Richard Peers, Founder, Responsible Risk Ltd. and the speakers include Holger Kessler, MSc CGeol FGS FRGS, Science Lead – Future of the Subsurface for the UK Government Office for Science, and Frank D'Agnese D’Agnese, Ph.D., President, CTO and Co-Founder, Earth Knowledge.
Dr. Frank D’Agnese and Julia Armstrong D'Agnese Present
at City & Financial Global Climate and ESG Data Summit 2023
Earth Knowledge founders, Dr. Frank D’Agnese and Julia Armstrong D'Agnese, presented “Beyond ‘climate’ in the ‘E’ of ESG: sourcing data for nature-impacts and biodiversity” at the City & Financial Global Climate and ESG Data Summit 2023. City & Financial Global’s Summit assembles the most senior leaders and experts of this field to share their knowledge, experience, and expertise on best practice approaches to addressing the ESG data challenges. The Summit was June 12 at the American Square Conference Centre in London.
Stephen Polasky, Earth Knowledge Natural Capital Director, Selected as Co-Chair for IPBES Business & Biodiversity Report
Natural Capital Director for Earth Knowledge, Stephen Polasky was one of three Co-Chairs selected to lead the new IPBES business and biodiversity assessment. The report is a methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. Stephen, Regents Professor and Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological and Environmental Economics at the University of Minnesota, along with Professor Ximena Rueda Fajardo, Associate Professor at the School of Management at Universidad de los Andes, and Matt Jones, Head of Nature Economy at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), will lead a highly interdisciplinary team of expert authors, including practitioners, currently being selected by the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel.
Microsoft Features Earth Knowledge in Partner Blog, “Amplifying the Impact of Trailblazing Women Leaders”
To honor International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month 2023, Microsoft highlighted trailblazing women in tech and their solutions that are benefitting industries and communities around the world in a Microsoft Partner blog. Women and their trailblazing innovations across industries from healthcare to sustainability, and business functional areas such as workplace collaboration and procurement were featured. Julia Armstrong D’Agnese and Earth Knowledge’s Foresight Platform that provides forward-looking planetary intelligence that helps companies mitigate future risk and guides investment decisions, bringing clarity to the economic risk of climate change and biodiversity loss were recognized.
Earth Knowledge CEO 1 of 4 Women Microsoft Featured for Women’s History Month
As part of the Microsoft #BuildFor2030 Initiative, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Microsoft highlighted women-owned businesses, their solutions, and their journeys growing their business on the marketplace during each week of Women’s History Month in March 2023. In the fourth edition of the series, Microsoft’s Gena Goh sat down with Earth Knowledge’s CEO, Julia Armstrong D’Agnese, to hear her story and partner journey.
Earth Knowledge CEO Awarded One of the Top 100 Women B2B Founders for 2023
Earth Knowledge CEO, Julia Armstrong D’Agnese, was recognized by Women In Cloud as one of the top one hundred women business-to-business founders in 2023. Women In Cloud in partnership with Masterfund, has been carefully curating a list of the leading women tech founders who are developing B2B cloud-powered SAAS solutions or services that considers environmental sustainability and fosters economic and social development. Congratulations Julia!