Ginci Insights

The snowstorm that swept North America this past weekend definitely gave the cities and towns a system-wide stress test on their climate preparedness. How governments and business respond, recover and improve after such storms will determine the success of climate adaptation in the everyday functioning of critical systems and communities.

AI is reshaping how we understand and respond to climate risks: satellite data is being used to map methane leaks in near-real time, while next-generation models like NVIDIA ’s “Climate in a Bottle” can deliver climate simulations at higher resolution, a scale that makes city-level adaptation planning possible. These advances are powerful, but without transparency on AI’s energy and water use, the environmental footprint could outpace the benefits.