Resilience & Sustainability

With the coming UN conference on climate change, the insurance industry has a historic opportunity to take a seat at the main table.

The successful rollout of vaccines worldwide will calm many but will not, alone, decrease the risk of civil disturbances and riots.

A geomagnetic solar storm could create havoc; the recent freeze in the Deep South showed how disruptive a failure of the electric grid can be.

The industry needs to stop wishing others could see the critical role we can play in preparing for climate change and just start playing that role.

Four years ago, almost no large companies were thinking about the impact of climate change on their businesses. Finally, many are.

The loss from the Arctic blast seems likely to be the largest in history, by a wide margin, because it caused a compounding event.

With climate risk on the rise and exposure growing, parametric insurance can plug the gaps left by traditional insurance.

If this spring La Nina holds together, the central plains could get back to seeing severe weather that was lacking last year.