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Broker Aon states that intensifying  flood and drought patterns are reshaping risk profiles across global insurance and reinsurance markets, according to its 2026 Climate and Catastrophe Insight (CCI) report.

As wildfires and droughts intensify across the globe, the insurance industry is searching for ways to close the growing protection gap. With traditional insurance struggling to keep pace with the escalating frequency and severity of climate-driven disasters, parametric insurance is emerging as a powerful tool, but its effectiveness relies on accurate data.

Skyline Partners Ltd., a parametric insurance specialist, has announced a new project in collaboration with the European Space Agency’s Business Applications and Space Solutions programme to leverage space-based technology for the development of parametric insurance solutions for drought and wildfire risks on a global scale.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), a provider of parametric disaster insurance products, has signed a first-of-its-kind multi-year, multi-peril agreement with the Government of Djibouti, designed with the help of parametric specialist Descartes Underwriting to protect the lives and livelihoods of one of the most climate-vulnerable communities on the African continent.

Kenyan reinsurance company ZEP-RE is partnering with Planet Labs, a satellite imagery and data provider, to develop enhanced indices that can be used within the trigger and calculation process for parametric drought insurance products in Africa.

For just the third time since records began, a triple dip La Niña has been declared by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), with impacts including above-average rainfall anticipated for some regions of the world.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has declared La Niña conditions for the Pacific ocean, highlighting that the event could cause weather impacts in Australia and more widely, which has ramifications for insurance and reinsurance market interests.

The German government is helping African countries to continue benefiting from parametric drought insurance protection under the African Risk Capacity (ARC), with around EUR 19 million being donated to help fund their participation during a time when fiscal budgets may be stretched by the pandemic.

Severe droughts, wildfires and flooding from torrential rain and typhoons have combined to cause in excess of $7 billion of economic losses in July 2018, with the insurance and reinsurance industry set to pay its share of the global bill.

The current near-record El Niño event appears on the wane, with conditions attributed to the phenomenon said to be in decline, but its effects set to be felt for some time to come, with insurance and reinsurance firms now turning their heads to the possible development of La Niña conditions.