Climate change & climate risk related news

The California Climate Insurance Working Group has issued a report detailing 40 state and local policy recommendations covering resilience building and risk transfer, with an over-arching theme that suggests innovative climate insurance and risk transfer is required, especially integrated solutions that consider communities alongside risk reduction.

One of the biggest challenges to providing fully environmental, social and governance (ESG) aligned investment strategies in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is the inability to know what really lies beneath every transaction, in terms of what has been underwritten by cedents along the market chain.

Climate change is not expected to impact all forms of investment in insurance-linked securities (ILS) uniformly, according to Twelve Capital, which means for ILS investors and managers, analysing climate exposure, as well as establishing and updating a house view on risk is key.

Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter is teaming up with other global Marsh McLennan businesses for a joined-up approach on delivering a holistic range of climate risk focused services and advisory, part of which is risk transfer related and includes catastrophe bonds.

The Lloyd’s of London market for insurance and reinsurance is underwriting increasing premium values related to climate risks, but there are clear opportunities to continue narrowing climate-linked protection gaps, even in emerging economies.

This week, the World Bank Group announced its new Climate Change Action Plan, featuring a range of commitments to ramp up and deliver record levels of climate finance, while catastrophe bonds, disaster risk financing and insurance against climate risk are also mentioned as key elements of the plan.

With the G7 meeting in Cornwall, UK beginning tomorrow and the COP26 only five months away, CEO’s of major global corporations are calling on world leaders to scale up climate risk transfer as part of the financial response to climate change.

United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres has again said that the world needs more catastrophe-triggered financing and better instruments to support the delivery of climate financing, to enhance disaster resilience, fund adaptation measures and finance climate risk.

ERS ILS Ltd., the dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) management division of specialty insurance and reinsurance player ERS, is set to benefit from climate-finance prediction modeling and risk transfer analytics services provided by AbsoluteClimo and AKR Zell.

Catastrophe risk modelling specialist RMS has said that average annual insurance industry losses from North Atlantic hurricanes could increase by 24% by 2050, while European floods could drive 59% more in insured losses by the same year.