Everbridge and Arcadis Partner on Climate Risk Assessment Tool for Organizations

Everbridge, a critical event management and public warning company, has formed a strategic partnership with Arcadis, a global design, engineering and consultancy firm, to help organizations assess and manage climate-related risks across their operations, facilities and supply chains. As the partnership's initial offering, the companies have launched a Climate Risk Assessment combining Arcadis' climate risk and adaptation expertise with Everbridge's critical event management and risk intelligence capabilities.

 

Why Combining Climate Data With Operational Context Addresses a Genuine Gap

 

Climate hazard data alone, information about where flooding, extreme heat, wind, cold or sea-level rise are likely to occur and at what severity, tells an organization relatively little about its actual business risk without being connected to specific knowledge of where that organization's facilities, assets and operations are physically located and how they function. A generic regional flood risk map, for instance, doesn't indicate whether a specific factory sits on elevated ground within that region or directly in a floodplain, nor does it capture how a disruption to that specific facility would cascade through an organization's broader supply chain or operational continuity plans.

The partnership's Climate Risk Assessment addresses that gap by combining Arcadis' multi-hazard climate data with what the release describes as "asset and operational context," pairing climate science with the specific operational detail needed to translate a generic hazard probability into an organization-specific understanding of what could actually happen to its own facilities and business continuity if a given hazard materializes. Arcadis Global Director of Climate Technology George Longfoot framed that combination as essential, noting organizations "need to know which assets are most at risk, what the potential impacts could be, and where to focus investment."

 

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Why Integrating Assessment Output Into an Existing Platform Matters for Real-Time Use

 

Assessment data generated through this partnership can be integrated directly into the Everbridge platform, allowing organizations to visualize climate risks alongside operational, geographic and critical event information within the same system used for managing live disruptions. That integration distinguishes this offering from a standalone climate risk report that might be produced once and then filed away, instead embedding climate risk information into the operational tool an organization would actually be using in real time when a disruption, whether climate-related or otherwise, is actively unfolding.

Everbridge Senior Vice President of Business Development Dominic Jones framed the partnership's purpose around this practical application specifically, stating "organizations cannot prepare for risks they do not fully understand," and that the goal is "helping customers move beyond awareness to action" by providing a clearer risk picture that supports "practical steps to strengthen resilience before disruptions occur."

 

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Why the Multi-Hazard Scope Signals a Broader Assessment Than Single-Risk Tools

 

The Climate Risk Assessment covers multiple distinct hazard types simultaneously, including flooding, heat, wind, cold and sea-level rise, through Arcadis' Nexus platform, rather than focusing narrowly on a single climate risk category. That breadth matters because organizations with geographically distributed operations, facilities and supply chains often face genuinely different climate exposure profiles across different locations, a coastal facility might face predominantly sea-level rise and flooding risk, while an inland facility in a different climate zone might face heat stress or extreme cold as its primary exposure.

Assessing multiple hazard types within a single unified framework allows an organization to compare and prioritize resilience investment across its full portfolio of assets and locations using consistent methodology, rather than needing to separately commission and reconcile different specialized assessments for each individual hazard type facing each individual location.

 

What the Stated Future Roadmap Reveals About the Partnership's Ambition

 

Beyond the initial Climate Risk Assessment, the release states Everbridge and Arcadis are exploring additional solutions spanning climate adaptation, advanced analytics, operational response planning and risk transfer strategies, positioning this initial assessment tool as the first output of what both companies describe as a broader, ongoing collaboration rather than a single, standalone product launch. That framing suggests both companies view the combination of climate science expertise and operational resilience technology as having applications extending beyond risk assessment alone into areas like insurance and risk transfer mechanisms, and active operational response planning for when climate-related disruptions actually occur.