Climate change
Risk managers urged to heed climate change
The human impact on the environment has been a major factor in a quintupling of weather-related loss events in North America during the past three decades, according to Munich Re.
Asia View from the Top: Getting flood modelling right
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2007 that especially heavily populated mega-delta regions in south, east and south-east Asia will be at greatest risk owing to increased flooding from the sea and, in some mega-deltas, flooding…
Making flood prevention cost effective
Flooding now affects more people than any other natural catastrophe. Jens Mehlhorn explains how tried and tested methodologies for determining the cost effectiveness of measures show that prevention is better than cure.
Climate Change: Turbulent times
With climate change a growing global concern, how is the insurance industry playing its part in saving the planet?
Post magazine - 26 July 2012
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Allianz champions sustainability with 'first' ESG advisory board
Allianz has established an advisory board for company-wide environmental, social and governance issues which it says is the first of its kind.
Flood defences need £20m boost in next 20 years, report finds
The government has been urged to invest £20m in flood defences after a report found that four times as many properties could be at risk of flooding in the next 20 years if no action is taken to prepare for climate change.
ISE 2012: France to suffer extreme temperatures due to global warming
Andreas Sterl, senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands meteorological Institute, has warned that France will be particularly affected by global warming.
ISE 2012: France to suffer extreme temperatures due to global warming
Andreas Sterl, senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands meteorological Institute, has warned that France will be particularly affected by global warming.
RMS launches specialist liability modeller
Modelling firm Risk Management Solutions has launched a liability modelling company in a joint venture with private investors.
Countdown to ISE: Q&A with guest speaker Steve Green
Steve Green, European middle market network leader for Zurich, will be presenting the session on 'Meeting the demands of the mid-market. Are insurers and brokers adequately servicing these clients?' at Insurance Strategy Europe taking place in Brussels…
Geneva Association warns of 2011 repeat
More people will live in large urban areas and be hit by extreme events like those seen in 2011, the Geneva Association has warned.
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.