22 insurers seriously assess climate risk — does yours?

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Ceres analysis reveals growing numbers of insurers are assessing climate risks effectively, but many are still failing to tackle the issue

In the past two years, as one record-breaking hot year followed another and property damages from Western wild fires and eastern hurricanes mount, there's been a doubling in the number of insurance companies...

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