Earth Observation and Big Data for improved financial resilience – new date

A webinar to discuss how latest technology can support innovative risk financing solutions for climate shocks and other complex risks.

Every day, the surface of our planet is monitored by hundreds of satellites operating at different altitudes, frequencies, registering changes related to crop growth, land use, soil moisture, floods, and complemented by a host of social/online/news media datasets.
The current Covid crisis highlights how supply chains are increasingly globalizing and becoming more complex. At the same time, climate change threatens our societies and economies. Satellite and big data are very powerful means to provide additional risk information to this picture, complementing or in some cases replacing traditional risk indicators, with new, global coverage, informing on severity and extent of impacts and shocks.

But how to produce the right, meaningful and timely information when it comes addressing financial risks from? Can satellite tech help us keep track of global supply chains?

From the standard applications (e.g. tracking deforestation and environmental risk) to most recent demand (e.g. credit risk assessments for smallholder farmers exposed to climate change and other disruptive events), the webinar will discuss the state-of-play, current pilots and most promising applications. It will cover a wide range of sectors and use cases, from financial assets mapping, to economic activity monitoring and including climate and complex risk modelling.

The webinar will discuss opportunities and challenges related to earth observation and big data in the context of disaster risk financing, decision-support, anticipatory action, sector-specific loss assessment and loss transmission channels. Solutions, such as systemic risk modeling or convergence of evidence methods, will be discussed with a focus on isolated risks (e.g. flood risk) and compound risks (e.g. COVID19 vs. extreme climate).