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News on climate change and how it affects the global insurance and reinsurance industry.
Climate change becomes the number one risk around the world: AXA
26th October 2022
Climate change is becoming the number one concern around the world, according to AXA's Future Risks Report 2022, with geopolitical risks coming in second place. The report also found that the feeling of vulnerability to certain risks has been increasing and confidence has waned. Based on responses from a panel of 4,500 ... Read the full article
JBA Risk Management launches new global climate change tools
26th October 2022
JBA Risk Management has launched a set of global climate change tools enabling the (re)insurance market, risk managers, and lenders to understand future flood risk in any country in the world. The suite of tools consists of new customisable Climate Change Flood Models offering high-resolution and probabilistic flood loss modelling for ... Read the full article
Activists from Extinction Rebellion protest at Baden-Baden
24th October 2022
Around twenty people from the groups Extinction Rebellion and Debt4Climate occupied this morning the Kongresshaus in Baden-Baden, where the reinsurance industry is currently holding its annual get-together. It is understood that the early morning saw a number of activists climbing onto the canopy with a five-metre-long banner saying, Stop (re)insuring Climate ... Read the full article
Verisk releases climate projections for US hurricane & Caribbean cyclone
18th October 2022
Global data analytics provider Verisk has announced the release of climate change projections for its U.S. Hurricane and Caribbean Tropical Cyclone Models to help quantify climate-related, extreme event losses and their potential evolution over the next few decades. The climate change projections provide a probabilistic view of future risk in 2030, ... Read the full article
Optimal risk-sharing fundamental to green transition: FERMA’s Wegener
12th October 2022
Optimal risk-sharing is fundamental to a successful transition to carbon neutrality and in the battle against cyber-crime, according to Dirk Wegener, President of the Federation of European Risk Managers (FERMA). Speaking at the FERMA Forum this week, Wegener raised three main areas of concern for risk managers: the transition to carbon ... Read the full article
Reinsurers must seek government backing for biggest risks: PwC’s Bichard
10th October 2022
Jim Bichard, Global Insurance Leader for PwC, has urged the insurance and reinsurance industry to seek bolder collaboration with governments and public bodies to handle the largest risks facing the market. Speaking to Reinsurance News at the recent RVS 2022 event in Monte Carlo, Bichard discussed the main trends and challenges ... Read the full article
Swiss Re warns of $270tn net zero investment deficit
7th October 2022
Analysts at reinsurer Swiss Re have warned that over $270 trillion in climate investments will be required across the energy, transport, buildings and industry sectors globally to meet the Paris Agreement and 2050 net-zero targets. A new Swiss Re Institute study asserts that climate investments must be made “sooner and on ... Read the full article
Gallagher Re to manage climate and food risk in Senegal
7th October 2022
Gallagher Re, the global reinsurance broking and advisory firm, has been selected by Senegal’s Public Solidarity Fund (FSN, Fonds de Solidarité Nationale) to develop a risk financing strategy for climate risk and food insecurity in the country. FSN is the national authority in charge of providing financial assistance to populations in ... Read the full article
Munich Re to cease investing in or insuring new oil and gas fields from April 2023
6th October 2022
Global reinsurer Munich Re has committed that as of 1 April 2023 it will no longer invest in or insure contracts / projects exclusively covering the planning, financing, construction or operation of new oil and gas fields, new midstream oil infrastructure and new oil fired power plants. The large, European reinsurer ... Read the full article
CCRI targets climate resilience gap with new infrastructure asset guide
3rd October 2022
The Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI), along with UK consultancy Mott MacDonald, have together launched a new guide that enables asset owners and investors to better understand the exposure of critical infrastructure to climate risks. Developed to address the resilience gap in financing, the Physical Climate Risk Assessment Methodology (PCRAM) ... Read the full article
Munich Re aims to push boundaries of climate insurability, say leaders
23rd September 2022
Executives at Munich Re say the company is aiming to “push the boundaries of insurability” in its efforts to help understand and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Speaking at a briefing during the 2022 RVS event in Monte Carlo last week, leaders at the German reinsurance company said they see ... Read the full article
Insurers’ climate risk management adequate for profitability implications: DBRS Morningstar
23rd September 2022
A new note from DBRS Morningstar highlights that even though there has been a number of record-breaking extreme weather events that have occurred across the world in H1 2022, the impact on the profitability of the global P&C insurance industry has been mitigated by the insurers’ response to climate change. Despite ... Read the full article
dClimate acquires Oasis Hub to expand climate change datasets
21st September 2022
dClimate has announced it has acquired Oasis Hub, a leading global data platform and aggregator for catastrophe, extreme weather, climate change and environmental risk data. dClimate states that the acquisition of Oasis Hub enables it to bring thousands of environmental and climate datasets, tools, and models on-chain as part of its ... Read the full article
Strong demand for reinsurance amid high inflation: Goldman Sachs
13th September 2022
With the 2022 annual briefings having started in Monte Carlo, analysts at Goldman Sachs have highlighted a strong demand for reinsurance amid higher inflation, while capital supply is flat to down. It expects strong rate increases will continue in the January 2023 renewals, with companies taking a more cautious view. Goldman ... Read the full article
Power sector faces rising rates and a new risk landscape, says WTW
9th September 2022
Risk managers in the power sector must navigate a new risk landscape brought about by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, global inflation, the energy transition, and climate change, according to the 2022 Power Market Review from WTW. With power insurance prices continuing to rise, risk managers must balance these risks while ensuring that ... Read the full article
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