'Scary numbers': As climate losses mount, how should insurers contend with the existential threat facing the industry?

Michael Holder
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'Scary numbers': As climate losses mount, how should insurers contend with the existential threat facing the industry?

Property insurers already count the mounting costs of climate damage in the hundreds of billions, and must take a more active role in combatting the risks, an industry-backed report argues

Few industries are more exposed to the frontline of the climate crisis than property insurance. It is the sector where the multi-billion economic costs of the physical damage wrought by our increasingly...

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