Climate Action
Insuring against extreme heat: navigating risks in a warming world
Among the many climate risks reshaping the world, extreme heat may pose the most profound threat to human health, infrastructure and economic stability.
Daniel Murphy
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Climate Action
What is parametric insurance and how is it building climate resilience?
Parametric insurance uses event triggers to provide swift, flexible payouts, leveraging AI and satellites to address climate risks and boost resilience.
Forum Institutional
The mindset change businesses need for a climate-resilient future
Business leaders need an urgent shift in mindset—from reactive to proactive—to contend with the rising risks. Here's what's needed now for climate adaptation.
Climate Action
Income protection and early warning systems: How India is building climate resilience
India's agricultural industry is a major economic contributor. Insurers and policy-makers are creating adaptation projects to build its climate resilience.
Financial and Monetary Systems
How innovative financial solutions can build climate resilience
Climate change is causing insurance losses of over $100 billion a year. Innovative financing solutions can play a key role to build climate resilience
Nature and Biodiversity
How we must adapt our workplaces to cope with extreme heat
As the Earth warms, new strategies and investments are needed to build societal and economic resilience to extreme heat. Here is how it's being dealt with.
Climate Action
森林火灾和极端高温给保险业带来了什么变化？
随着气候变化引发越来越多的自然灾害，保险业当前正提高费率、减少承保范围，甚至完全退出某些市场；加利福尼亚州最大的两家保险公司表示将不再提供房屋保险，这反映了保险公司从风险高发地区撤出的大趋势；政策制定者和保险公司必须共同努力，保护脆弱社区和经济体免受连带气候风险的影响。
Climate Action
How wildfire risk and extreme heat is changing the insurance industry
Insurance firms are raising rates, reducing coverage and exiting some markets entirely as climate change fuels more natural disasters such as wildfires.
Nature and Biodiversity
Preparing economies and societies for extreme heat
As temperatures rise worldwide, achieving extreme heat resilience requires a multistakeholder approach and buy-in from the financial services sector.
Financial and Monetary Systems
What are sustainability linked bonds and how can they support the net-zero transition?
Sustainability linked bonds offer lower interest rates to issuers that implement sustainability or ESG principles. Here's how they can support net-zero.
Urban Transformation
Extreme heat is weakening cities, financial services can help build resilience
The past seven years have been the warmest on record and have impacted infrastructure. Mitigating extreme heat effects requires significant investment.