Mitigating climate risk

The effects of climate change and global warming are already evident and shaking up our risk landscape: warmer average temperatures, rising sea levels, melting ice caps, longer and more frequent heatwaves, erratic rainfall patterns and more weather extremes.

A most urgent question we need to ask is not only how to tackle climate change, but also how we can best adapt to a changing climate and avert the most damaging consequences – in short, how to mitigate climate risk.

Top perspectives

  • Blog ​"Secondary" is not the same as "unimportant"

    Victor Victorsson Co-Head EMEA Engineering

  • Blog ​Weathering the storm – crisis lessons for climate resilience

    Urs Baertschi Chief Executive Officer Reinsurance EMEA / Regional President EMEA

  • Blog ​Beyond COVID-19: Three paths to a sustainable future

    Mike Mitchell Head P&S Underwriting Reinsurance

  • Blog ​Getting it right when tackling a global crisis

    Moses Ojeisekhoba Chief Executive Officer Reinsurance

  • Blog ​COVID-19 is an existential threat… but so is the climate crisis

    Edi Schmid Underwriting Advisor to the Group EC

  • Blog ​A silver bullet won't solve a green problem

    Christian Mumenthaler Group Chief Executive Officer

  • Blog ​What climate goals and going to Mars have in common

    Christian Mumenthaler Group Chief Executive Officer

  • Blog ​Public-private partnerships are the key to tackling climate change. Here's why

    Veronica Scotti Chairperson Public Sector Solutions

  • Blog ​Averting a collision course with climate change

    Edi Schmid Underwriting Advisor to the Group EC

  • Blog ​Facing the heat: a climate risk perspective from Australia

    Mark Senkevics Head P&C Underwriting Asia & ANZ

  • Blog ​Nothing “secondary” about secondary perils

    Moses Ojeisekhoba Chief Executive Officer Reinsurance

Top stories

  • Article Extreme heat in Western and Southern Europe: A real and increasingly regular peril of climate change

  • Video ​How global initiatives and new technologies can strengthen resilience to climate change and pave the way to a net-zero future

  • Article Why managing biodiversity risk is critical for the global economy

  • Article Floods and drought: Two sides of the same coin

  • Article Climate Change: A Matter of Life & Health

  • Article Strengthening crop insurance with digital solutions

Publications

  • Expertise Publications

    Publication Habitat, water security and air quality: New index reveals which sectors and countries are at risk from biodiversity loss

  • Expertise Publications

    Publication 15 years after Katrina: Would we be prepared today?

  • Expertise Publications

    Publication Empowering Africa

  • SONAR

    Publication SONAR 2020: New emerging risk insights

  • Expertise Publications

    Publication Conserving our common heritage

  • sigma

    Publication sigma 2/2020: Natural catastrophes in times of economic accumulation and climate change

Natural catastrophes: How can we be more resilient?

As Earth's warming trend continues, climate change and urban sprawl are putting more of us in harm's way. It's time we turn the tide.
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More stories

  • Article Innovation in times of recession – a hurdle or a way out?

  • Article Storms, wildfires and floods: how climate change amplifies insurance risk

  • Article 5 lessons in 5 charts: resilience in an age of climate extremes

  • Article A wake-up call on typhoon risk in Japan – revisited

  • Winter storms in Europe

  • Article Championing climate action

  • Natural catastrophes: Closing the protection gap together

  • Article Confronting the cost of catastrophe

  • Article Tackling America’s flood risk problem

  • Article How to rethink flood risk and help society become more resilient

  • Natural catastrophes: Closing the protection gap together