CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY
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NewsWillis warns of ‘profitability tightrope’ for energy insurers
Willis’s global head of natural resources, Rupert Mackenzie, warned that insurers’ profitability challenges are mounting.
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NewsWTW: Nat cat protection gap at 60% as climate rise reaches 1.5°C
Global insured losses surpassed $140bn last year, while economic damages surpassed $350bn, according to a broker report.
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NewsProtection gap panel calls for tenfold increase in crisis finance
Leaders call for tenfold Increase in proportion of international crisis finance that is pre-arranged to meet the cost of future crises.
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NewsLast year's insured losses reached $145bn globally – Aon Cat Report
Report reveals 60% of economic damage caused by catastrophes in 2024 was uninsured; insured losses reached $145bn globally – the sixth costliest year on record.
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NewsClimate, technology and geopolitics lead 2025 risks – Beazley CEO
Three overarching key risk areas emerged from Beazley’s ‘Risk & Resilience Predictions for 2025’, the re/insurer’s CEO, Adrian Cox revealed.
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NewsNew Lloyd’s syndicate ‘pivotal’ – Carbon Underwriting
Carbon Underwriting has a new syndicate at Lloyd’s. Questions answered by Rob Crocker, its active underwriter.
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NewsGuy Carpenter: Driving innovation through nature-based solutions
Research reveals a range of human factors are the main drivers of increasing loss frequency and cumulative losses for severe convective storms, writes Josh Darr, managing director, global head of peril advisory, Guy Carpenter.
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NewsNat cat insured bill hits ‘new high’ of $151bn annual loss average – Verisk
Exposure growth is expected to average 7.2%, according to a new report from catastrophe risk data and analytics firm Verisk.
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NewsKita, TMK partner to provide political risk cover for carbon credit projects
Lloyd’s coverholder Kita has secured re/insurer Tokio Marine Kiln as lead capacity provider for the launch of a political risk product aimed at high-growth carbon markets.
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NewsAon appoints Chen as Asia Pacific leader for agriculture reinsurance
To be based in Singapore, Chen has previously served in Aon’s regional agriculture reinsurance team, focusing on Greater China and Thailand.
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NewsNew record of 142 nat cats adds up to $108bn in 2023 – Swiss Re
Swiss Re Institute said frequency of events is main driver of insured loss accumulation, with severe convective storms accounting for a record $64bn last year.
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NewsCentre for Disaster Protection to form technical advisory group for Global Shield against Climate Risks
The group will help vulnerable countries access climate and disaster risk finance and insurance support packages via Global Shield.
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NewsMapfre targets 6% growth and 10-11% RoE
Spanish insurer Mapfre aims for a 95% combined ratio by the end of 2026.
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NewsESG: business sense, culture and innovation focus – GAIF34 panel
Saudi Re is using technology to drive ESG, while speakers agreed on the need for top-down ESG strategy to align with overall strategy and to emphasise the business case of ESG.
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NewsGlobal risks and perceptions intertwined – Interview with Zurich’s head of sustainability risk
Global tensions are rising, but risk perceptions are in the eye of the beholder. Zurich’s John Scott discussed the big picture with Global Reinsurance.
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News$100bn is the new normal for annual nat cat losses – WTW
2023 revealed the scale of the protection gap, but was still a $100bn+ nat cat year, the broker said.
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NewsHowden, SCOR launch carbon capture and storage insurance facility at Lloyd’s
The first-of-its-kind facility has SCOR as lead underwriter and other following markets at Lloyd’s have committed to support the facility, with further capacity anticipated, according to Howden.
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NewsCyber leads Allianz Risk Barometer in 2024
Data breaches, attacks on critical infrastructure or physical assets and increased ransomware attacks drive cyber concerns, in the German insurer’s annual paper on the global risk landscape.
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NewsInsurance Development Forum provides Disaster Risk Reduction Task Force update
The task force has three areas of focus, according to the public-private partnership between the insurance industry and the UN, World Bank and other NGOs.
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NewsNormanMax gets Lloyd’s ‘in principle’ approval for parametric Syndicate 3939 with Apollo
US parametric re/insurer gains the initial nod from the Lloyd’s Council to launch a new syndicate, focused on climate change-affected cat business.
