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Climate risk related insurance and reinsurance news and analysis.

The impacts of climate related risks are a key topic for the insurance and reinsurance industry, while providing risk transfer solutions to hedge against and protect from climate risk related losses is an important area of innovation for the market.

Willis enhances climate risk modelling capabilities with updated climate diagnostic solution

15th June 2026

Willis, the insurance broking, risk advisory and consulting arm of WTW, has introduced an upgraded version of its Climate Diagnostic solution, aimed at helping organisations assess and respond to the growing impact of climate-related risks on property insurance markets. The updated tool forms part of WTW’s Risk IQ platform and, according ... Read the full article

94% of US business owners fear insurance gaps, driving shift to integrated risk strategies: Gallagher

12th June 2026

US business owners are moving beyond reactive risk management and embedding risk into how they operate, invest and grow, a recent survey by global insurance broker Gallagher revealed. Gallagher’s fourth annual Business Owners Survey, which included the participation of 1,000 business owners, highlights a broader shift toward more proactive risk practices, ... Read the full article

Property Guardian and EigenRisk launch integrated Wildfire Risk Intelligence for underwriters

9th June 2026

Property Guardian, a wildfire risk intelligence company serving the insurance industry, has entered into a new channel partnership with EigenRisk, a provider of real-time catastrophe and climate risk analytics. Under this collaboration, Property Guardian’s wildfire risk intelligence has been integrated directly into the EigenPrism platform, allowing commercial property underwriters and portfolio ... Read the full article

US flood exposure points to large potential uninsured losses and credit pressure for local govs: Moody’s Ratings

27th May 2026

An assessment by Moody’s Ratings, authored by Jennifer Chang, Senior Vice-President for Sustainable Finance Credit, and Firas Saleh, Director of North American Flood Models, evaluates residential flood exposure across the United States and finds substantial gaps between insured and uninsured losses at county level under different flooding scenarios. Moody’s Ratings indicates ... Read the full article

Generali and ECMWF formalise European partnership on climate risk and resilience

18th May 2026

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the European intergovernmental organisation specialising in weather and climate forecasting, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with international insurer and asset manager Generali to expand the use of quality-assured climate information in support of climate risk resilience across Europe. The agreement strengthens ... Read the full article

Willis and Cornell University collaborate on research into correlated catastrophe risk

15th May 2026

Willis, a global insurance broker and risk advisory firm, has announced a new scientific collaboration with researchers at Cornell University and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. The partnership, introduced by Willis, is focused on identifying emerging risks linked to correlated natural catastrophes. Supported by an initial one-year funding agreement, ... Read the full article

Aon updates Climate Risk Monitor 3.0 to assess heat stress and rising cooling demand

12th May 2026

Aon, a global professional services firm focused on risk and insurance-related advisory, has released an updated version of its Climate Risk Monitor platform, enhancing its ability to quantify physical climate risks and support decision-making across industries. The latest release, CRM 3.0, introduces Heat Stress analytics that assess how combinations of temperature, ... Read the full article

Insurers seen as broadly resilient under severe climate disaster stress tests: S&P

6th May 2026

S&P Global Ratings, a global credit rating agency that assesses the creditworthiness of organisations and financial instruments, has said the insurance sector continues to face rising losses from extreme weather, while still showing strong overall financial resilience under severe stress scenarios. In a report published on 4 May 2026 entitled Charts ... Read the full article

JBA Risk Management releases global climate change flood mapping suite

23rd April 2026

JBA Risk Management, a specialist company focused on flood hazard modelling and climate risk analytics, has introduced a new suite of global flood maps that incorporate climate change projections. The tools are designed to help insurers, investors, corporates, and other stakeholders assess how physical flood risk may shift over time. According to ... Read the full article

Aon reports increasing climate risk from flood and drought in 2026 CCI findings

22nd April 2026

Aon plc, a global professional services firm, states that evolving flood and drought patterns are reshaping risk profiles across global insurance and reinsurance markets, according to its 2026 Climate and Catastrophe Insight (CCI) report released ahead of Earth Day. Drawing on its catastrophe data and forward-looking climate modelling, Aon reports that ... Read the full article

Climative introduces insurance platform to turn climate risk insight into practical action

30th March 2026

Climative, a property-level climate intelligence firm, has introduced a new insurance-focused platform aimed at helping insurers communicate climate risk to homeowners in a clearer and more practical way. The company, which specialises in translating complex environmental data into property-specific insights, says the platform is designed to support both insurers and homeowners ... Read the full article

‘Perfect time’ for climate-tech focus, says Dickson as OAK Global unveils new unit

24th March 2026

OAK Global is targeting the increasingly interconnected risks of climate and technology with the launch of OAK Horizon, a new underwriting unit designed to channel capital into emerging exposures, as CUO Tom Dickson points to a narrowing window to address rising volatility across sectors, including food security, energy and ... Read the full article

Renew Risk appoints Joshua Macabuag as Chief Executive Officer

18th March 2026

Renew Risk, a specialist provider of analytics focused on risks affecting renewable energy assets, has named Joshua Macabuag OBE FREng as its new Chief Executive Officer. The company develops catastrophe risk models and data tools designed to support the insurance and energy sectors in assessing and managing risks linked to renewable ... Read the full article

Four leading development risk pools consider joint reinsurance and risk finance platform

2nd March 2026

The four leading development insurer parametric risk pools — Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC), African Risk Capacity (ARC), Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC), and Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF) — have agreed to examine the feasibility of a shared risk finance and reinsurance platform designed ... Read the full article

Recognition of nat cat adaptation could strengthen EU insurers’ solvency ratios: Fitch

26th February 2026

Fitch Ratings, the credit rating agency, says that solvency capital ratios for insurers in the European Union with meaningful property exposures could edge higher if the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority advances proposals to reflect natural catastrophe adaptation measures more directly within the standard formula framework. The agency regards the ... Read the full article