Climate Today

Jonathan Gonzalez, CEO & Co-founder of Raincoat, takes the reins as guest host with EDF's Carolyn Kousky to explore one of the most pressing challenges in insurance: the disaster insurance gap.

Join us in this educational webinar, as Matthew Grant talks to Dr. Tomas Holderness at Addresscloud and Chris White at Precisely on how best to unlock wildfire hazard data for insurers to make fast and more informed decisions.

In this month’s issue of Climate & Cat Risk, Valencia floods highlight climate risk, Exponential Risk London 25 goes live, our upcoming webinar on wildfire data, and global insured losses from natural disasters exceed $102 billion in 2024 so far.

Join us in this educational webinar, as Matthew Grant talks to flood modellers from Fathom to explore the complexities of flood catastrophe models. You will discover key model-building techniques, essential data inputs, and hear from both the developer's and end-user's perspectives.

Explore how insurers are addressing risk blind spots, particularly in the context of climate-related natural disasters, by leveraging advanced data modeling, AI and real-time analytics to improve prediction accuracy and build future resilience.

In this month’s issue of Climate & Cat Risk, topics include the surprising quiet in hurricane season, new insights into flood and wildfire risks, evolving climate resilience strategies plus our upcoming events focused on managing the impact of extreme weather.

On 23 July, InsTech held an event to review the latest developments in short-term climate modelling and understand property blind spots. Supported by EigenRisk and Reask, insurers and climate experts came together to discuss current challenges and solutions on stage and amongst the audience. The speakers explored topics such as how to deal with changing hurricane landfall frequency mid-seasons, predictive modelling, and how investors and corporations should respond to evolving climate risks.

In collaboration with Floodbase, this article explores the issues with flood insurance, the data platforms tackling these problems and closing the golf course flood insurance gap.

In this month’s issue of Climate & Cat Risk, discover how near real-time hurricane forecasting is transforming insurance strategies, along with industry updates on wildfire losses, earthquake risk assessments, sustainability initiatives and evolving analytics tools.

Ahead of our next July evening event in London, Matthew Grant caught up with Deepak Badoni, President and Co-founder of EigenRisk Inc - a one-stop shop platform for the industry to bring all the catastrophe risk analytics in one place.

In this month’s issue of Climate Risk, you can read about the new products that are aiming to protect those that are currently uncovered through alternative risk transfer solutions.

In this month’s issue of Climate Risk, we’ve collated the five key areas that are on the insurance priority list for the rest of the year.