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🛰 As reported by the BBC, Kayrros analysis revealed one of the worst methane leaks ever recorded took place last year at a remote well in Kazakhstan. This massive methane release was previously denied by the owner of the well and dismissed as ‘water vapour.’ Our analysis has now been verified by the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and confirmed by BBC Verify. Based on our findings, 127,000 tonnes of the gas escaped when a blowout started a fire that raged for over six months. The environmental impact of the leak is equivalent to the emissions of 717,000 petrol cars for a year. Our thanks to BBC News, International Methane Emissions Observatory, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) for working with us on this important story. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eXQdnzSt #climate #methane #sustainability

🎟 Insurers today face many challenges, not least the rising frequency and severity of natural disasters. This has led some of them to flee the most at-risk parts of the world. Fortunately, there are more sophisticated ways to deal with mounting climate risks. By leveraging geospatial data and many other inputs in highly innovative ways, we at Kayrros have developed solutions that let insurers predict events with a high degree of precision and accuracy, mitigate risks by encouraging their customers to take appropriate and effective precautionary measures, respond more efficiently to climate events when they do occur, and expedite claim processing. That’s why Kayrros will be attending Innovation Assurance 2025, a key event for the insurance, mutual and pension sectors. Covéa Insurance, BNP Paribas Cardif, Allianz Direct, AXA and many other companies will be there, discussing the way in which organisations should respond to technological advances in AI, market innovation, and evolving customer expectations. Quentin Hamonou, Kayrros Sales Representative, will demonstrate how our unrivalled data and analytics technology can support the industry’s adaptation to risks connected to the climate, mobility, and cybersecurity – all while expanding coverage and enhancing the customer experience. Come and meet us and discover how we’re helping to shape the future of the insurance sector. 📍 LAHO Business Center, Paris 🗓 January 30, 2025 👉 Find out more about the event: https://lnkd.in/eNBdD2uE See you there! #innovationassurance2025#ai#insuranceinnovation#riskmanagement#digitaltransformation

🚀 Kayrros is proud to be on the program of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit hosted by President Macron in Paris next month. Kayrros Chief Product Officer Augustin Prate will be at Cathay Innovation on Wednesday, February 5 for an 'AI for Finance' event officially affiliated with the AI Action Summit.   Augustin will join isahit CEO Isabelle Mashola, and Alma CEO Louis C., to discuss how AI can improve the financial system through such tools as alternative data sources, credit scoring and risk management. The panelists will then be joined for a fireside chat by Renaud Dumora of BNP Paribas and Charles-Albert Lehalle from Cathay Innovation, during which they will dig deeper into what the future of AI-driven finance might look like. It'll be a fantastic event, and a golden opportunity for us to share insights, gain  knowledge, and connect with our peers and partners. We hope to see you there! 📅 Date: 18.30 on 5 February, 2025 📍 Location: Cathay Innovation, 52 rue d'Anjou, 75008 Paris, France Request to join the event here: https://lu.ma/t3ywbyjg #euspace #climate #sustainability #innovation #spacetech

🗞️ We're pleased to bring you the third edition of The Commodity Picture, the newsletter that draws on our data to provide you with unique insights into the factors affecting commodity supply chains and prices worldwide. In this edition ... • We discuss President Trump's promise to 'drill, baby, drill', and show how the US oil patch has changed dramatically since 2008, when VP candidate Sarah Palin first used the slogan. • We explore how oil production and rig count in the USA parted ways last year due to gains in efficiency. • We show how frac counts are now much better than rig counts for forecasting US oil production, and how we ran regressions in the Permian to find the best prediction variables. • And we explain why frac'ing has grown more efficient, and why the map of production growth has changed. Discover all this and more by subscribing to the The Commodity Picture.   👉 Read it now: https://lnkd.in/esneugqT #commodities #trump #frac #oil #oilandgas

🎟 Kayrros will be attending E-world energy & water 2025, Europe’s leading trade fair for the energy and water industries, from February 11-13 – and it promises to be a great event. E-world is where the European energy industry converges – bringing key players, innovative technology, and cutting-edge solutions under one roof. While over 20% of exhibitors come from outside Europe, this event remains a hub of collaboration for the EU’s energy community. It’s a fantastic opportunity to discuss the latest trends in energy and sustainability, as well as the rapid digital transformation of the sector. Quentin Hamonou, Sales Representative, and Dan Bowditch, Commercial Manager, will be there, showing how Kayrros' advanced environmental data and analytics are driving smarter decisions in the energy markets and enabling climate risk management and regulatory compliance. Come and meet us, and explore how our insights can help you stay ahead in a rapidly changing energy landscape. 📍 Messe Essen, Germany 🗓 Feb 11-13, 2025 👉 Book your tickets and find out more: https://lnkd.in/dbKNtS4 See you there! #eworld2025 #sustainability #energyinnovation #digitaltransformation #energydata

🎟️ We’ll be in Miami on Wednesday for BattleFin Discovery Day, where alternative data providers like Kayrros will be showing how datasets can be used to make better, faster decisions that have a meaningful impact. There will be expert content, panels, networking, one-to-ones, roundtable discussions and more. It’ll be a great opportunity for us to speak to other data providers, gather and share insights, find out more about user needs and connect with other industry leaders. Niklas Huppmann, Business Development Manager, and Quentin Hamonou, Sales Representative, will be attending. They’ll be talking to potential buyers about how Kayrros’ data can be used to guide decision-making and generate opportunities for asset managers and other financial players. Niklas and Zac Yang of Exabel will also be presenting a talk at 11.05 AM on Day 2 entitled ‘Data Spotlight Surfacing Insights’. They’ll discuss how to predict performance and drive operational improvements using alternative data. We’re looking forward to it. And as ever, feel free to come and say hi. 📍 Nobu Eden Roc Hotel, 4525 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33140  🗓 January 22–24 Get your tickets for the event here: https://lnkd.in/eqPRvMKj Tim Harrington Todd G. Schwendiman, CHP, CAIA #battlefin2025 #alternativedata #datainnovation #datainsights #dataevent

🛰️ Kayrros President and co-founder Antoine Rostand will be taking part in a roundtable at Davos later this afternoon. At The Centaurs AI Summit, hosted by CNBC and organised by the European Space Agency - ESA Agency, global business leaders will explore the changing relationship between human talent and artificial intelligence, as well as the profound impact of AI in the professional, personal, and societal spheres. Antoine will be joined by Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, and Daniel Dobos, Research Director at Swisscom. 📍 The Sanctuary, Scalettastrasse 1, 7270 Davos Platz, Switzerland 🗓️ January 20 at 5.30PM It isn't too late to register! 👉 Sign up here: https://thecentaurs.ai/ #wef2025 #ai #davos #thecentaursai

🛰A tale of two giant cement producers as told by satellites… Did you know that in March 2024, satellite data show that the utilization rate at many Heidelberg Material cement facilities plunged below 50% — a five-year low (based on Kayrros figures) that the company blamed on bad weather across multiple regions? Meanwhile Holcim, another major producer, hit a similar low in March, also below 50%, presumably for the same reasons. Yet the data suggest the two companies then followed different recovery paths, with Holcim ramping back up faster and averaging higher utilization rates overall. Only last week did they converge back to the same rate, for the first time since March. It will be interesting to see when and to what extent either firm will recover from seasonal Q1 lows. Why does it matter? Utilization rates below 50% mean companies are operating at less than half capacity. Underutilized assets normally translate into lower revenue as fixed costs are spread over fewer units of production. So the ability to track industrial production and activity in near-realtime – and ahead of company reporting – can be quite material for investors. How do we do this? Kayrros uses satellite remote sensing and AI to track the heat and energy emissions of cement and steel facilities globally to quantify their daily production output. A recent peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Econometrics shows how our technology significantly outperforms benchmark models and alternative indicators. Kayrros Industrial Equity Tracker aggregates daily production data at company level. What’s our track record? Thanks to our partner Exabel we backtest our data to publicly reported company KPIs. Regarding Heidelberg Materials, Kayrros Industrial Equity Tracker achieved average accuracy of 96.7% compared to its European revenue reports over the course of the last two years. The model made four calls for a beat/miss of >3% vs. consensus, and was correct each time. Kayrros Industrial Equity Tracker provides equity investors with: • Daily P&L-related production data: Production and plant utilization metrics. • Benchmarking: Compare the productivity of public cement companies. • Outlier event detection: See if an asset has been affected by a hurricane or attack. • Proven accuracy: Outperform usual benchmark models with up to 45% more accuracy. • Global coverage: Track over 1,000 plants across key regions (and just let us know if you need additional coverage!) 👉 Read the study and explore how the Industrial Equity Tracker can give you an edge: https://lnkd.in/edBpwZS4 #earthobservation #alternativedata #satellitetechnology #tech #innovation #construction DISCLAIMER: The information provided herein does not constitute advice (including in particular investment or financial advice) and Kayrros is neither registered nor acting as a financial advisor of any kind.

📰 Scientists have linked anthropogenic climate change to Cyclone Chido, Hurricanes Milton and Helene, and Storm Boris. Climate change has also made the grasses and shrubs fuelling the devastating Los Angeles fires more vulnerable to burning, while increasing the frequency and severity of wildfires in general. Insurers, tasked with helping those affected to pick up the pieces and recover, are struggling to cope. One solution, argues Kayrros President Antoine Rostand, is to move to a prevention model, using environmental intelligence to model risk accurately and take steps to minimise human and financial losses. As he wrote for the Financial Times' Sustainable Views, environmental intelligence 'cannot change the strength or frequency of location of extreme weather events'. But with it, insurers can track weather patterns, soil moisture, vegetation health, and even signs of emerging fires. That can help to mitigate harm and expedite the claims of those affected in the aftermath. With the climate crisis intensifying, it's vital that we use the most sophisticated tools and technology that we have at our disposal. 👉You can read Antoine's piece here: https://lnkd.in/eACjZ9uM #wildfires #floods #insurance #risk #climate

🌍 How can we bridge the "trillion-dollar gap" between what Big Data and AI can do to fight climate change and how ready big businesses are to make use of them? Such is the question that Kayrros will be tackling at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week - ADSW. Antoine H., co-founder and Chief Analyst, will join a panel entitled "Big Data, Big Impact: Modeling Climate Risk" to discuss the standardization, accessibility and interoperability of data from different sources; the role that tools and platforms can play in making it actionable; how public bodies can promote data literacy; and more. ADSW is a global platform aimed at addressing the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges through conversation. It brings together decision-makers from governments, the private sector, and civil society to discuss and engage in bold climate action that will advance the global sustainability agenda through dialogue, collaboration and impactful solutions.   📅 January 15, 2025, 12:15 - 12:45 📍Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Attendees at ADSW will hear from global leaders like Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga from the UNFCCC, Lord Adair Turner of the Energy Transitions Commission, and Catherine Fiamma MacGregor from our friends at ENGIE. 👉 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/dF8uwWf #abudhabisustainabilityweek #bigdata #climaterisk #ai #innovation