Mitiga Solutions - Climate Intelligence Platform for Urban Resilience and Climate Adaptation
Barcelona, Spain · 2018 · Mitiga Solutions (Spain) — climate risk intelligence company and spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Mitiga is helping cities and infrastructure operators move from reactive disaster response to proactive climate risk management, financial quantification, and investment-grade adaptation planning. Through EarthScan™, decision-makers can identify climate vulnerabilities decades in advance, quantify potential physical, operational, social, and economic consequences, and prioritize investments that maximize avoided losses, resilience return, and social benefit. The platform supports the protection of critical infrastructure, public services, economic activity, and vulnerable populations. By making advanced climate modelling operationally accessible and financially quantifiable, Mitiga enables better decisions on where and when to invest in adaptation measures, reducing future damages while improving the efficiency, accountability, and impact of public expenditure. Its impact extends beyond risk assessment. By helping governments, utilities, investors, insurers, and infrastructure operators convert climate risk into comparable financial metrics, EarthScan supports more effective resource allocation, preservation of livelihoods, continuity of essential services, protection of communities, improved insurability, and reduction of long-term climate-related economic losses. At a broader level, Mitiga contributes to building safer, more resilient, and economically sustainable cities capable of adapting to a rapidly changing climate.
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The Digital Climate Twin for Cities: Translating Climate Risk into Financial Metrics to Protect Communities, Infrastructure, and Economic Activity
Extended description
Cities concentrate populations, economic activity, public assets, transport systems, energy networks, water infrastructure, healthcare facilities, housing, and essential services. This concentration makes them increasingly exposed to hazards such as flooding, extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and storms. Climate events can cause physical damage, disrupt mobility and essential services, affect business continuity and livelihoods, and place growing financial pressure on municipalities and infrastructure operators. Their impacts may disproportionately affect vulnerable communities and deepen existing inequalities.
Climate change is altering the frequency, intensity, and geographic distribution of hazards, making historical weather observations increasingly insufficient for long-term planning and infrastructure investment. Decision-makers need forward-looking assessments that connect climate projections with potential economic and social consequences.
Mitiga Solutions was created to address this gap between advanced climate science and operational decision-making. As a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Mitiga combines climate modelling, artificial intelligence, Earth observation, geospatial analytics, and high-performance computing to generate forward-looking climate risk intelligence.
Its flagship platform, EarthScan™, functions as a digital climate intelligence layer for cities, infrastructure systems, public assets, and critical services. It enables users to assess how climate risks evolve through the 21st century under different climate scenarios and translate projections into actionable adaptation, insurance, financing, and investment decisions.
A key capability is financial quantification. EarthScan helps cities and infrastructure operators estimate potential physical damage, value of exposed assets, operational disruption, business interruption, fiscal pressure, avoided losses, and adaptation investment priorities. This can support:
Assessing potential damage to public assets, buildings, transport corridors, energy infrastructure, water systems, and other critical urban infrastructure.
Evaluating indirect economic disruption, including service interruptions, business continuity impacts, supply-chain disruption, mobility constraints, and productivity losses.
Prioritising adaptation investments by comparing potential losses, avoided damages, intervention costs, and resilience benefits.
Supporting capital allocation, resilience financing, insurance solutions, and long-term public budget planning.
Identifying vulnerable communities and urban systems where climate-related disruption may generate disproportionate social and economic costs.
EarthScan assesses riverine, pluvial, and coastal flooding; extreme heat and urban heat stress; wildfire risk and smoke exposure; drought and water scarcity; severe wind; and extreme precipitation and storm-related impacts. Its applications include climate-resilient urban planning and zoning, critical infrastructure investment, public asset management, emergency preparedness, water, energy and transport resilience, urban heat mitigation, infrastructure financing, and climate-risk disclosure.
EarthScan supports decision-making across urban and infrastructure systems, helping public administrations, utilities, infrastructure operators, insurers, and investors connect climate projections with financial and socioeconomic outcomes. Through APIs and enterprise integrations, the platform can be embedded into existing GIS, planning, engineering, insurance, finance, and risk-management workflows.
By linking climate projections with financial and socioeconomic metrics, EarthScan helps decision-makers prioritize interventions according to expected losses, social benefits, lifecycle costs, fiscal exposure, and resilience objectives.
Demonstrated metrics
EarthScan™ provides:
Global coverage across more than 180 countries.
Climate intelligence spanning historical, current, and future conditions through 2100.
Multi-scenario climate projections updated in five-year increments.
Multi-hazard assessment covering flood, heat, wildfire, drought, severe wind, and extreme precipitation.
Integration of climate, geospatial, infrastructure, Earth observation, exposure, and asset datasets.
Asset-level, portfolio-level, city-wide, and regional-scale analysis.
API-based integration with planning, GIS, engineering, insurance, finance, and risk systems.
Financial quantification of physical and operational climate impacts, including potential loss, service disruption, business interruption, fiscal exposure, and value at risk.
Support for adaptation investment prioritisation, scenario comparison, insurance, resilience financing, and public budget planning.
Real impact
Mitiga helps cities answer one of the most critical questions of the century: where should we invest today to avoid the human and economic costs of tomorrow’s climate extremes?
Mitiga is helping cities and infrastructure operators move from reactive disaster response to proactive climate risk management, financial quantification, and investment-grade adaptation planning.
Through EarthScan™, decision-makers can identify climate vulnerabilities decades in advance, quantify potential physical, operational, social, and economic consequences, and prioritize investments that maximize avoided losses, resilience return, and social benefit.
The platform supports the protection of critical infrastructure, public services, economic activity, and vulnerable populations. By making advanced climate modelling operationally accessible and financially quantifiable, Mitiga enables better decisions on where and when to invest in adaptation measures, reducing future damages while improving the efficiency, accountability, and impact of public expenditure.
Its impact extends beyond risk assessment. By helping governments, utilities, investors, insurers, and infrastructure operators convert climate risk into comparable financial metrics, EarthScan supports more effective resource allocation, preservation of livelihoods, continuity of essential services, protection of communities, improved insurability, and reduction of long-term climate-related economic losses.
At a broader level, Mitiga contributes to building safer, more resilient, and economically sustainable cities capable of adapting to a rapidly changing climate.
Implementation location & date
Mitiga Solutions is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and was founded in 2018 as a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). The EarthScan™ platform is deployed internationally.
Similar cases elsewhere
Climate X and Jupiter Intelligence provide climate-risk analytics for assets and infrastructure, while Moody’s Climate Solutions and S&P Global Sustainable1 integrate physical climate risk into financial and investment decision-making.