Climate Industry Landscape
Overview
The climate risk and Earth observation industry is large, fragmented, and hard to navigate. This tool maps 46 companies across the space — from space agencies and EO analytics firms to parametric insurers, physical risk modellers, and finance & consulting groups — and plots them on two axes that matter for career decisions: scientific depth and insurance/finance orientation.
It is designed for researchers and data scientists who want to understand where different companies sit relative to each other, what kind of work they do, and whether a given firm is worth pursuing.
What you will find here
- Scatter plot with every company positioned by scientific depth (x) and insurance/finance focus (y), colored by category
- Company panel with description, relevance notes, tags, and a direct link to the careers page
- Landscape view grouping companies by archetype, with context on what each segment looks like from the inside
- Filters by category, region, and keyword search
- Six archetypes: Space agencies, EO analytics, Physical risk & cat modelling, Parametric insurance, ESG/climate data platforms, Finance & consulting
How companies are positioned
Placement reflects the nature of the work, not company size or prestige. A space agency like ESA sits far right (deep science) and low (no finance focus). A reinsurer like Swiss Re sits top-left (high finance, more applied). A startup like Floodbase lands top-center: insurance product, but built on satellite data and climate models.
The goal is to make the landscape legible at a glance — so you can identify which quadrant fits your background and interests before spending time on individual company research.