Climate Change

Climate Risks Threaten Stadiums Worldwide, Including World Cup 2025 Venues

Climate-related risks threaten major football stadiums with potential losses reaching $800 million by 2050, according to analysis by Climate X.

P&C Insurers Turn to Advanced Technology to Mitigate Emerging Risks

Predict & Prevent® Podcast Episode 17: Building Resilience: From Rooftops to Results

Flood Adaptation Measures Offer Significant Economic Benefits

AI Adoption Grows for Extreme Weather Risk Assessment

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The Predict & Prevent™ Podcast Episode 6: The Right Data for Resiliency and a Focus on Risk Prevention

Resiliency and understanding ROI are two big factors in the Predict & Prevent™ model. The latest episode from The Institutes’ Predict & Prevent podcast dives in.

The Predict & Prevent™ Podcast Episode 5: Harnessing Data to Better Predict and Prevent Losses

Capturing more precise data can help predict potential losses. Here’s how companies in wildfire risk and worker safety are doing just that.

Replacing Offshore Wind Turbines Costs Millions. What North American Operators Can Learn from Europe’s Loss Lessons

When it comes to offshore wind power, several risk and insurance factors should be reviewed, from installation and repair costs to maritime law constraints.

In Conversation with Risk & Insurance: Swiss Re’s Katie McGrath on the Vital Importance of Resilience

Katie McGrath of Swiss Re shares her view on catastrophic weather events and their impact on insurers and insureds alike.

California Climate Change Is Here to Stay. Is the U.S. Food Supply Doomed — or Will Growers Adapt?

If the West Coast’s unprecedented water shortage continues as expected, the entire country will soon feel its impact.

4 Key Factors Impacting the U.S. Commercial Property Insurance Markets

When it comes to property insurance, several factors are affecting market dynamics.

Predict & Prevent™: How Technology Will Play a Crucial Role in Natural Catastrophe Property Loss Prevention

When it comes to predicting and preventing natural catastrophe property losses, risk professionals are finding tech solutions rooted in resiliency. 

As Floods Rage and Wildfires Roar, Insurers Embrace Evolutionary Ideas To Address Climate Catastrophe

Unique solutions created by innovative Insurtechs are helping to address the climate catastrophe from various angles.

Insuring the Climate Transition: How Can the Construction Industry Confront Escalating Storm Damage?

Adverse weather events are costing the construction sector billions annually in direct and contingent business interruption losses.

Four Ways Blockchain Can Help the Insurance Industry Tackle Climate Change

The fight against climate change is a complex one, and it will require unprecedented collaboration between businesses, governments and nations. Fortunately, trust and transparency is where blockchain technology excels.

Want to Make Yourself a Better Climate Change Risk Manager? Here’s One Way

The Climate School’s curriculum was developed in collaboration with a range of experts to help professionals understand and confront the impact of climate change on the practice of risk management.

California’s Recent Floods Prove We’re Not Prepared for What’s Coming. Why Higher Insurance Uptake Can’t Be the Only Solution

As recent weather events in California demonstrate, most property owners should be doing much more to prepare for heavy rains and flooding.

7 Key Takeaways from the Willis Towers Watson Life Sciences Report

Digital transformation, clinical trials, climate change and product recalls are among the top risks and opportunities facing the life sciences sector over the next several years.

Inflation, Energy Costs and a Looming Recession Clamber Up Allianz’s List of Risk Managers’ Concerns

Allianz’s annual survey highlights risks not usually associated with traditional insurance.

Insuring the Climate Transition: As Capacity Wanes and Storms Batter the U.S., What’s the Future of the Property Insurance Market?

Property insurance markets are bracing for increasingly frequent severe weather events.

7 Questions for Demex’s Chief Climate Officer Stephen Bennett 

Climate risks aren’t going away. Demex’s Stephen Bennett believes new models and insurance solutions will help manage these critical exposures.  

Climate Risks Abound, but Short-Term Economic Risks Worry Business Leaders More, Says This World Economic Forum Report

Despite natural disasters and extreme weather growing, environmental risks were overshadowed by geopolitical conflicts, inflation and mounting national debts in this report.

3 Significant Ways Natural Disasters Impacted Insurance Around the Globe in 2022

Aon’s third quarter 2022 Global Catastrophe Recap highlights the strains on insurers from U.S. hurricanes, historic droughts and heatwaves in Europe, and unprecedented flooding in Pakistan.

The 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction Was a Masterclass in Climate Change’s Butterfly Effects. What Can We Learn from It?

Risk transfer and risk mitigation both figure prominently in addressing climate change.

To Find the Climate Threats to Your Business, FM Global’s Pentti Tofte Says Look to Your Data

Increasingly, climate change is becoming a pervasive business risk that is perilous to ignore. Flood, drought, wildfire, severe windstorms, and other anomalous weather effects will likely jeopardize most every organization in time, whether directly or indirectly.