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Insurers disclosing climate risk need to remember their customers

Swenja Surminski and Sam Unsworth, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

01 August 2019 • 9 min read

Extending climate risk disclosure to customers could yield benefits for both insurers and, argue LSE's Swenja Surminski and Sam Unsworth

Climate risk disclosure has advanced rapidly over the last four years, since Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney highlighted the risks of climate change to the finance and insurance industries...

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