Climate Resilience

Perspective Recycling Is Not Enough

The Variety Of Sustainable Packaging For Consumer Products Is Widening

Perspective The Path to Paris

Welcome to the Energy Current Podcast series, featuring conversations with industry leaders shaping the energy industry and related sectors. In this episode, join David Knipe, Christian Edelmann, and James Davis as they discuss how Europe's companies are progressing in their action on climate change.

Perspective Powering Your Sustainability Strategy Through Procurement

For many years, calls have been getting louder for business leaders to pay more attention to their organization's environmental, societal, and governance (ESG) strategy.

Hub Facing the Climate Change Challenge

Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time. Marsh McLennan is committed to helping our clients understand and navigate the transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy. In the run-up to COP26, we will deliver insights, analysis, and reflections on conversations, developments and innovations related to climate.

Report Sunk costs: the socioeconomic impacts of flooding

Flood risk is the most pervasive among natural disasters. Climate change and the increasing concentrations of population and assets in exposed areas are exacerbating the threat of flooding, and its human and economic costs are on the rise and greater than we realize. Since 1980 only 12 percent of economic losses have been insured. Flooding deepens economic and social inequalities, disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable. Governments should take a strategic approach to close the protection gap, maximizing insurance penetration in a financially sustainable way, without incentivizing moral hazard or crowding out private insurers.

Perspective Climate Change Significantly Impacts Global Health

Climate change will be the most significant force impacting global health. Impacts will arrive gradually, then suddenly. The healthcare industry may not respond in time.

Webtool Climate Health Threat Illustrator

Climate change is increasing health risks and costs for people and businesses worldwide — and its effects will intensify over time. Disease burden and disparities are likely to worsen, and 2 out of 3 major cities expect climate change to seriously compromise their public health assets and services.

Report Running Hot: Accelerating Europe's Path to Paris

Europe's companies are reporting impressive progress in their action on climate change - but not yet nearly the progress required to hit the 1.5°C target of the Paris agreement.

Perspective How to finance industry's net-zero transition

Financing the transition to net-zero in emissions-intensive heavy industrial and mobility sectors is a complex and risky undertaking – but with the right coordination and cooperation, it can be done.

Perspective The world's energy transition is here to stay

Oil companies' customers, bankers, and investors are increasingly committed to a lower carbon world.

Report Community-Based Catastrophe Insurance

Insurance plays a critical role in recovery from natural disasters, but many households and small businesses do not have sufficient coverage to fund repair and rebuilding due to various reasons. CBCI can play many roles in the dynamic ecosystem of existing public and private catastrophe insurance mechanisms. It could complement traditional catastrophe insurance markets by providing supplemental financial protection to community members in the event of a disaster or be used as full-limit, single-peril property protection in areas with high risk. In other instances, CBCI can offer the community a means to work with carriers or private capital providers to rebuild and sustain insurance uptake while facing loss volatility.

Report Global Risks Report 2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated ongoing geopolitical and societal challenges, and the existential crisis of climate change looms large. More innovative and collaborative approaches to resilience are needed more than ever.

Perspective Climate Transition And The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve Board (Fed) will substantially elevate the priority of climate-related risk in its regulations and supervision going forward. This paper explores the implications.

Perspective Climate Change: It's Business That Needs To Act

This article is the first in a series from Oliver Wyman experts following Marsh & McLennan's Better By Design virtual event, which brought together thought leaders to articulate a vision for what is possible and design a path forward for industry and society in a post-COVID world.

Perspective Carbon Neutral Consumer

Various options are available for private households to reduce their carbon footprint and in many of them utilities can play a key role enabling customers to actually achieve those savings.

Report Changing Nature of Risk

In The Changing Nature of Risk report recently published by Guy Carpenter, we analyze how an accumulation of losses from recent extreme weather events, the specter of climate change and higher loss cost trends in a number of long-tail business lines are forcing carriers to reassess views of risk. Capital inflow levels and risk appetites are responding accordingly.