Katelyn Johnson

Dec 3, 2024 | verdantix.com | Katelyn Johnson

Our EHS & Quality research is designed for EHSQ professionals seeking to improve the effectiveness of their EHS information management strategies.

Nov 10, 2023 | verdantix.com | Katelyn Johnson

A 2023 study in Nature Climate Change suggested that the impacts of extreme weather and climate-related risks on global ports and maritime supply chains put an estimated $122 billion in economic activity at risk annually. Droughts are particularly problematic for supply chains that rely on canals, as laid bare by recent issues in Panama. Amid ongoing drought, which is expected to worsen due to El Niño conditions, lakes that supply the Panama Canal have receded drastically.

Oct 2, 2023 | verdantix.com | Katelyn Johnson

As global temperatures rise, leaders will be on the lookout for robust tools that can assess chronic and acute physical climate risks. While physical climate data are freely available from a range of institutions around the world, these data are often at too coarse a resolution or not in a usable format. In most instances, users must perform additional processing or analyses on the data for their specific projects, which can take significant computing power.

Oct 2, 2023 | verdantix.com | Katelyn Johnson

In a recent Verdantix survey, only 37% of the 200 risk leader respondents acknowledged physical climate risk as a significant threat to their operations; 40% felt they faced minimal to no threat from physical climate risk. After an incredibly hot boreal summer filled with wildfires and floods around the world, there’s some cognitive dissonance going on.

Aug 14, 2023 | verdantix.com | Harry Wilson |Katelyn Johnson

This blog is the third of a multi-part series covering the history and current state of the US electrical grid, and the implications this has for the future in terms of renewable energy adoption, climate risk and smart grid technologies. In our second blog, we explored how the Inflation Reduction Act has influenced renewable adoption. Here, we present possible solutions for end-energy-users to reduce reliance on delayed, problematic and risk-prone electrical grids.