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12/30/2025

Wildfires are escalating in frequency and severity, creating unprecedented risks to people and company assets.

This TerraWatch Space piece looks at how Earth observation technologies can monitor wildfire behavior, measure contributing factors like fuel and weather, and provide insights that can be used to decrease fire risks. ESGSignals delivers similar data themes, including proximity to fire and other key environmental, climate, and physical risk metrics, which investors and businesses can use to better understand the resilience of their assets and establish plans for protecting them.



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12/24/2025

What a year it’s been...and 2026 is just getting started!

The RS Metrics team would like to wish our customers, partners, and broader community a joyful holiday season and a prosperous, healthy 2026! Thank you for the trust, collaboration, and inspiration that continue to power our mission to deliver objective, asset-level intelligence for better decision-making in a rapidly changing global environment. We are especially grateful to Thynk Ventures, the VC which has been continuously helping us scale innovation and deliver powerful solutions at the intersection of data, AI, climate intelligence, and sustainability.

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12/23/2025

Dutch pension fund PFZW - Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn's decision to cut mandates from AQR Capital Management, BlackRock, and L&G Asset Management underscores the importance of sustainability in investment strategy approaches.

PFZW’s portfolio now equally weighs financial performance, risk, and ESG considerations, highlighting the increasing demand for environmental, climate, and physical risk insights. RS Metrics’ ESGSignals® provides investors with independent ECP data to guide strategic decisions, helping asset managers align portfolios with their sustainability goals.



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AQR Capital Management is among firms to have lost its mandate with PFZW, as the Dutch pension fund cuts a number of external managers due to concerns that they’re …

12/17/2025

Understanding soil quality at continental scale is becoming central to environmental research and policy, and this study offers a compelling framework for the future of soil monitoring.

The paper examines multiple soil quality assessment approaches within the context of the EU’s Mission Soil, emphasizing indicator selection and the need for clear principles to evaluate soil functions across diverse ecological and policy landscapes. At RS Metrics, our ESGSignals® platform provides environmental, climate, and physical risk intelligence at the asset level, including soil-related data themes, helping researchers, companies, and policymakers evaluate soil conditions and understand how company production processes might have an influence on them.



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12/14/2025

Talent restrictions could become a risk for the semiconductor industry.

Semiconductor leaders are worried that proposed U.S. visa changes, including limits on F-1 student visas and sharply increased H-1B fees, could reduce access to skilled talent and decrease domestic chip production. As talent and capacity pressures intensify, objective data tools become essential for companies and investors to understand shifts in production, competitiveness, and supply-chain resilience. RS Metrics’ Custom Event-Driven Monitoring (CEDM) tool can deliver insights into production levels and facility activity at semiconductor company locations, helping business leaders understand disruptions, compare performance, and make confident strategic decisions.



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12/10/2025

When culture ignites climate action, the business world should pay attention.

This 2024 article by The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlights how musicians like AJR are mobilizing millions of concertgoers to drive real climate advocacy, proving that influence, narrative, and data-based strategy can meaningfully shift behavior. As companies build their own climate strategies, RS Metrics provides decision-makers with high-quality environmental, climate, and physical risk data through ESGSignals® so they can make better decisions and strengthen processes. Scalable climate engagement requires high-quality climate intelligence and RS Metrics can deliver the insights needed for pursuing sustainability goals more effectively.



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I’ve seen firsthand how musicians and grant makers can work together to mobilize fans and spur climate action.

12/03/2025

Extreme weather no longer just disrupts business—it demands smarter, faster financial protection.

Willis from WTW and Swiss Re have launched a parametric insurance policy that triggers payouts based on forecasted red weather warnings from the UK Met Office or Met Éireann, rather than waiting for damage to occur. At RS Metrics, we believe in the value of proactive climate risk intelligence. Through ESGSignals®, we deliver objective, asset-level environmental, climate, and physical risk data to help businesses quantify exposure, strengthen risk models, and take action before disruption happens.



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Willis, a business of broking group WTW, has launched a unique parametric insurance policy, designed in collaboration with Swiss Re Corporate Solutions,

11/26/2025

Can data centers really move to space?

At Italian Tech Week, Jeff Bezos predicted that data centers could operate in orbit within the next 10–20 years, powered by solar energy and free from the environmental limits of Earth-based infrastructure. As the demand for AI computing continues to surge, this shift emphasizes the need to assess the environmental, climate, and physical risk performance of existing data centers. With ESGSignals®, RS Metrics provides businesses and investors with the data they need to evaluate and benchmark the sustainability performance of data center assets worldwide, including key themes like water stress.



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The concept has gained traction among tech giants as those on Earth increase demand for electricity and water to cool their servers.

10/31/2025

As global data center demand accelerates, so does scrutiny over their water consumption.

In his blog piece "The Critical Role of Water in Data Center Operations", Rishav Raj explores the critical role of water in data center cooling, the rising pressure on local communities, and innovations like reclaimed water systems and AI-driven cooling which can be introduced to make data centers more sustainable. Companies like Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft are already pursuing water-focused sustainability commitments, while tools like our ESGSignals® platform deliver the asset-level water and environmental intelligence which is needed to assist businesses with detecting excessive usage and managing climate and physical risks with high-quality data.



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10/31/2025

Supply chain decarbonization received a major upgrade.

Schneider Electric has launched Zeigo by Schneider Electric Hub, a new AI-powered digital platform designed to help companies decarbonize their supply chains by engaging suppliers, setting emissions targets, and tracking sustainability progress in real time. RS Metrics’ ESGSignals® data can be applied to complement platforms like Zeigo Hub by delivering environmental, climate, and physical risk insights that enable companies to measure sustainability performance and ensure compliance with regulations like CSRD, EUDR, and TNFD. By integrating accurate geospatial intelligence, organizations can pursue their goals while alleviating climate-related risks and decreasing pollution.



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Energy and electrification advisory, services, and software solutions provider Schneider Electric announced today the launch of Zeigo Hub, a new digital platform aimed at helping companies to decarbonize their supply chains, with capabilities to engage with suppliers, build customized decarbonizatio...