Natural disasters

The problem is clear: Existing weather is visibly outrunning our combined efforts to stem global warming. Humans are losing the race against heat.

The proposed new insurance plan is intended to protect the Southeast Asian nation from infrastructure losses caused by natural disasters.

Yellen, who also chairs the Financial Stability Oversight Council, said that a spate of extreme weather events is causing insurers to raise rates on homeowners.

State Farm and Allstate are no longer writing new homeowner policies in California. But some insurtechs argue that with better data, carriers can make more nuanced decisions.

The damage has triggered the highest insurance payout in almost two decades, with experts warning that it could get worse.

As climate change continues to worsen extreme weather, damaging homes and wreaking havoc on crops, the need for more responsive insurance policies is growing.

Local embedded and microinsurance models could provide immediate assistance to vulnerable low-income communities at risk of extreme climate events.

The UN Environment Programme, which convened NZIA two years ago, said Wednesday in a statement that NZIA members will no longer be obligated to set or publish targets.

The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association is getting ready to head back to the market next week with a variable-rate bond deal after successfully selling fixed-rate bonds last week to help fund claims from insolvent insurance companies.

Biodiversity — including pollinating bees, marine life, rainforests and agricultural soil — is declining at an unprecedented rate as a result of exploitation, land-use change, pollution and extreme weather.

When combined with machine learning, the data extrapolated from aerial imagery acts as a powerful tool in an insurer's toolkit.

Jeff Diem founded the insurtech to fix a problem he encountered as a residential damage contracting estimator: wildly divergent estimates of damage repair costs from contractors and insurance companies.

The confluence of the right tech, models, and curated property data empowers the underwriter – and insurers at scale – to better write and manage wildfire risk.

So far, little is known about how the fire will impact BigCoast's carbon removal capacity or how much carbon has been released.

Up to $1 million will be awarded for solutions that address climate risk and aim to empower vulnerable frontline communities.

AIG's decision comes on the heels of both State Farm and Allstate Insurance Co. announcing plans in recent weeks to stop writing new policies in fire-prone California.

(Bloomberg) --California regulations restrict insurers from using sophisticated computer models to consider the rapidly growing wildfire risks from climate change — and that limitation is a factor pushing US insurers out of the state.

The technologies safeguard insurers' ability to understand historical data and remotely apply those insights to risk modeling and underwriting.

New technologies have the capability to provide an analysis of potential exposures.

The political attacks are interfering with insurers' independent efforts to price climate risk, which will harm policyholders, main street investors and local economies, a GFANZ spokesperson told Bloomberg last week.