Resilience & Sustainability

Not a single named tropical storm formed in August, the first time that has happened since satellites started monitoring the Atlantic in 1967.

The flash flooding in Texas over the weekend dramatizes how storms are not only becoming stronger but can deliver stunning amounts of rain in a single hour.

The industry in aggregate is retreating from climate risk, at a time when society needs it to run toward the most severe risks that threaten us. It's time for the industry to step up.

In numerous cases, such as the tsunami in Sri Lanka, even a bit of warning could have saved lives and protected assets. Texting should be a key tool. 

More open sources of data and common standards for models will enhance our understanding of the potential implications of climate transition decisions.

The last six hurricane seasons have been characterized by above-average activity, and this trend is expected to continue in the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season.

Here is what insurers should be aiming to achieve ahead of the UN climate summit in November to support both their own and broader net zero emissions pledges.

Insurers have massive databases from simulation models and satellites when it comes to weather and climate. The problem is figuring out how to use them to their full potential.