All climate articles
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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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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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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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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.
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NewsHowden addresses COP28 on the private sector’s role in protecting vulnerable countries
David Howden, founder and CEO of Howden, gave a keynote speech at the COP28 summit on the power of the private sector to protect vulnerable countries against the effects of climate change and unlock investment in their future.
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NewsThe most climate vulnerable countries could lose 100%+ of GDP from insurable cats – Cambridge, Howden study
Risk-sharing action plan to scale up loss and damage funding for Global South countries to inform COP28 discussions in Dubai.
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NewsWTW launches Asia Pacific Climate Risk Centre in Singapore
The insurance broker said it would provide climate risk quantification and management capabilities to support the region’s resilience and transition to net-zero.
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NewsBeazley: A line in the sand
Beazley’s Patrick Hartigan writes on the increased frequency of extreme weather and the need for adequate pricing for the many climate change linked secondary perils hitting re/insurance markets.
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NewsStorms are getting stronger – Lockton Re climate study
Reinsurance broker Lockton Re has published a report on climate change and hurricane trends.
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NewsHowden appoints IDF’s Douglas as climate risk and resilience CEO
Rowan Douglas has moved from his previous position of head of climate at WTW to assume a similar role at rival broker Howden.
