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Accenture and Cervest Collaborate to Bring Innovative Solutions to Clients Seeking Resilience Amid Increased Climate Risk

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This collaboration will help clients assess and mitigate physical asset risk based on different climate scenarios enabling them to better plan for resilience and inform net zero strategy, while also making climate-related disclosures more transparent.

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  • This collaboration will help clients assess and mitigate physical asset risk based on different climate scenarios enabling them to better plan for resilience and inform net zero strategy, while also making climate-related disclosures more transparent.
  • “As climate-related physical and transition risks become more prevalent, companies need to embed climate considerations into risk mitigation and put effective climate strategy and adaptation at the core of long-term business resilience,” said Vrushali Gaud, managing director, Sustainability Services at Accenture.
  • Known as Cervest Ratings™ , these can determine combined risk or hazard-specific risk that climate change effects including droughts, flooding, wildfires or extreme temperatures can have on any asset.
  • The analysis helped the organization advance its climate risk analysis and reporting capabilities and be better prepared for coming regulations demanding climate-related disclosures.

Cervest Names Karan Chopra as COO to Expand Global Footprint

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Thursday, October 14, 2021
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Powered by groundbreaking Earth Science AI technology, Cervest's EarthScan combines earth science, data modeling and machine learning to present a unified view of climate risk across millions of global assets for the first time. EarthScan gives enterprises, governments and NGOs on-demand access to current, historical, and predictive intelligence on how combined climate risks can impact the physical assets they own or manage. This enables them to manage decisions across an asset's entire lifecycle -- from identifying future growth prospects and monitoring risk to collaborating on adaptation and decarbonization strategies.

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  • Chopra brings expertise in strategic and product development, platform and technology enablement, and go-to-market execution to bear for Cervest.
  • Chopra previously served as an advisor to Cervest and co-founded, scaled and sold GADCO, a leading agribusiness, alongside Cervest CEO Iggy Bassi.
  • "We are at an incredible inflection point where climate is finally coming to the forefront of business and government decision making," said Karan Chopra, COO, Cervest.
  • In addition to Chopra, Cervest has also added Thomas Maschler, Head of Platform
    Engineering & Jake Jurewicz , Head of Strategic Projects to their U.S. leadership team.

Cervest Appoints Lila Tretikov Chairperson of Board of Directors

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
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LONDON, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cervest , creator of the world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform, has tapped Lila Tretikov to lead its Board of Directors.

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  • LONDON, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cervest , creator of the world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform, has tapped Lila Tretikov to lead its Board of Directors.
  • "Climate is finally on the top of the agenda for boards and governments," said Lila Tretikov.
  • Tretikov will join existing Cervest Board of Directors members Iggy Bassi (Founder & CEO), Dr. Ben Calderhead (Chief Scientific Advisor), Vinoth Jayakumar (Partner and Fintech Practice lead, Draper Esprit), and George Coelho (Co-Founder, Astanor Ventures).
  • Cervest offers cloud-based Climate Intelligence (CI) to enable organizations to manage and adapt to climate risk at an asset-level.