Climate Resilience

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.

Report Incorporating Sustainability Into Infrastructure

Our joint report with WWF explores the current industry trends and practices in infrastructure investing as they relate to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, with a focus on climate and nature-related considerations.

Report Addressing Climate Change

This paper lays out six concrete actions that life insurers can take to respond to the challenges – as well as the opportunities – created by climate change.

Report Carbon Neutral

The accelerating transformation provides utilities with the opportunity to play a key role in lowering carbon emissions and profit from new business fields.

Report Climate Change: The Implications for Boards – Article Series 2020

Presenting this compendium of articles on the implications of climate change for boards.

Report World Energy Trilemma Index 2020

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the World Energy Trilemma Index presents a comparative ranking of 128 countries’ energy systems. It provides an objective rating of national energy policy and performance across three dimensions: Energy Security, Energy Equity and the Environmental Sustainability of Energy Systems.

Journal 2020 Climate Resilience Handbook

A selection of perspectives from our businesses offering insights from their work helping clients confront climate change and navigate a course through risk to opportunity.