Climate change
Catlin sponsors Great Barrier Reef scientific expedition
Catlin is sponsoring a scientific expedition that will document the composition and health of sections of the Great Barrier Reef across a range of depths.
Roundtable: Climate change - what are the implications?
Environment-related risks will shift significantly over the coming decades, so what can insurers, brokers and loss adjusters do to prepare for the future?
Post magazine – 23 February 2012
The latest issue of Post magazine is now available to subscribers as a digital and interactive e-book.
Countdown to EIS: Q&A with panel member Jan Auerbach
Jan Auerbach is senior vice president for the European risk management division at Chubb and will be taking part in a panel debate on the varying role of the broker across Europe at Insurance Strategy Europe taking place in Brussels on Wednesday 21 and…
Post webinars - Future risk: How can the insurance industry influence the agenda in the climate change debate?
The chairman of Climatewise John Coomber recently wrote that the global response to climate change to date had been "lethargic" and "totally out of proportion with the scale of the threats we face".
View from the Top: Future Flooding
Government must play its part in achieving a satisfactory solution to flood defence
UK faces 100 climate change risks
A government report claims the UK is one of the best-prepared nations for the implications of climate change but lists the top 100 risks the country faces.
Spotlight on environment: Extreme measures
Extreme weather events can have enormous economic costs, with huge uncertainty surrounding them. So how can this uncertainty be communicated in a meaningful way to decision makers?
Spotlight on environment: Providing protection
With climate change increasing the likelihood of natural disasters, insurers must influence the debate on how businesses and governments manage risks such as supply chain failure.
Spotlight on environment: Getting protected
When the Statement of Principles on the provision of flood insurance expires next year, how will insurers address the 200 000 high-risk households left struggling for cover?
Governments should act like companies, says Geneva Association
Governments of risk-prone countries must make progress in understanding the risks their countries are exposed to and learn to manage them properly, according to the Geneva Association.
ATE insurer Elite enters solicitors' PI market in dramatic u-turn
Legal expenses provider and after-the-event insurer Elite Insurance Company will be entering the solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance market this year in a dramatic u-turn to its position last year.
Durban 2011: More than a once-a-year event
All eyes are focused on Durban for the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference. But according to many this is much more than a once a year event, reports Andreas Spiegel.
Munich Re receives funding from German ministry for climate change initiative
Munich Re has teamed up with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility and specialist microinsurance broker Micro Ensure to develop insurance solutions developing countries vulnerable to climate change.
View from the top: The challenge to keep it cold
Global warming presents unique challenges for the industry, says David Weymouth.
Hotter, wetter and windier weather poses a threat to insurers
The Inter-governmental panel on climate change has identified rising temperatures, heavier rain and stronger winds as threats to insurers.
Climate Wise reports zero improvement
Climate Wise member firms' compliance with the climate change group’s principles has stagnated at 88% after three years of improvements from a starting score of 65%.
Natcats and the insurance sector
The European Union is currently consulting on natural catastrophes. Vic Wyman reports on the part the insurance industry has to play.
$3bn Thai flood losses set to escalate as city centre inundation begins
Loss adjusters have told Post there is a “whiff of Katrina” about the Thailand floods, following predictions the disaster could cost more than the estimated $3.3bn (£2.1bn) insured losses.
Risk modelling - Riots: Out of control
The recent riots across England emphasised the destruction such uprisings can inflict. But why do riots start and can their triggers be predicted and planned for?
Climate change: A changing environment
With insurers rushing to provide environmental cover, how are they performing themselves in the climate change stakes?
BIS 2011: Industry must up government lobbying or risk unsustainable losses
Stronger engagement with national governments is essential to overcome the current insufficient focus on natural disaster mitigation and to push through long-term reforms that will help reduce total event cost.
Swiss Re chief becomes head of Climate Wise
Swiss Re director John Coomber is to become the new chairman of Climate Wise on 1 October.
Climate Wise chairman named
John Coomber, member of the board of directors of global reinsurer Swiss Re, will become the new chairman of Climate on 1 October.