Here we highlight the top stories of 2020 that GC Capital Ideas has presented on managing risks associated with climate change. ... Continue Reading »
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Protecting the Public Purse: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in a Warmer World
In light of COVID-19, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) – the most significant climate summit since the 2015 signing of the Paris Agreement – was postponed. However, this does not signify that climate change has been knocked off the agenda. In fact, critical momentum around this issue continues to build, according to Ruth Lux, Head of Pub ... Continue Reading »
Video: What Governments Can Do to Identify and Build Resilience Against Climate Risks
Climate change risk is, by its very nature, massively disruptive, and nations are responsible for an increasing share of the costs as communities and businesses rely more and more on state natural disaster relief. Put simply, insurance penetration is falling behind rising loss trends, and the situation is only going to deteriorate going forward, especially as climate change ... Continue Reading »
Video: The Reinsurance Market and Climate Change
Guy Carpenter recently participated in a series of videos with The Insurer, in which experts from throughout Guy Carpenter opine on different aspects of the contemporary risk landscape. ... Continue Reading »
Climate Change is an Opportunity for Business to Thrive
The reinsurance market exists to help risk aggregators — often insurance entities — manage the volatility embedded in their obligations to policyholders when adverse events, such as floods, wildfires and hurricanes, impact many of their policies at the same time. As climate change and the associated increase in natural catastrophe events alters the contemporary risk landscape, t ... Continue Reading »
How Overlooking Climate Change Could Become a Personal Liability
Reinsurers are well-placed to advise clients on responding to climate change risk. As climate change and the associated increase in natural catastrophe events alters the contemporary risk landscape, there is now an opportunity for companies to partner with the (re)insurance market and put its expertise to work. Climate change is complicating two of the most important board ... Continue Reading »
Review of Climate Change Risks on GC Capital Ideas
Here we highlight the recent stories that GC Capital Ideas has presented on managing risks associated with climate change. ... Continue Reading »
How Businesses Can Overcome Barriers to Achieving Climate Goals
As climate change and the associated increase in natural catastrophe events alters the contemporary risk landscape, there is now an opportunity for companies to partner with the (re)insurance market and put its expertise to work. According to a recent survey of hundreds of business executives and thought leaders, many are taking the right steps to reach their goals. However ... Continue Reading »
Global Risks for Infrastructure: The Climate Challenge
As climate change and the associated increase in natural catastrophe events alters the contemporary risk landscape, there is now an opportunity for governments to partner with the (re)insurance market and put its expertise to work. Infrastructure investors need to adopt a dynamic and evolving approach to building climate risk resilience, according to a recent report from ... Continue Reading »
How Companies Can Deal With Climate Change
As climate change and the associated increase in natural catastrophe events alters the contemporary risk landscape, there is now an opportunity for companies to partner with the (re)insurance market and put its expertise to work. Today, there is rising concern about the current climate threat among the public, some governments and the investment community, according to ... Continue Reading »
