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Sustainability
Climate Change

Authors of our own (climate) scenarios

This blog describes the discussion from an interactive session exploring climate scenarios for insurers. It outlines some lessons this exercise might have for life insurers when developing climate scenarios as part of their risk management processes.

Climate Change
Sustainability

Planetary insolvency: could climate change outpace insurance solutions?

Climate disasters are driving insurance losses up 7% annually, threatening to make vast areas uninsurable. Sandy Trust explores the looming ‘great risk transfer’ from insurers to society.

Sustainability
Climate Change

Talking Sustainability with Nick Spencer

We interviewed Nick Spencer, Chair of the IFoA sustainability Board, covering his ambitions as Chair and his thoughts on actuarial involvement in sustainability. Here is what he had to say.

Sustainability
Climate Change

The Harrier jet of lifelong learning

As one of the IFoA’s 4700+ volunteers, Nick Spencer is Chair of the IFoA Sustainability Board. He featured as our ‘Inside Story’ in the December 2020 issue of The Actuary magazine. In this blog he provides some more details on the role of the Sustainability Board and answers some more questions on his volunteering experience.

Sustainability
General Insurance
Climate Change

Climate scenarios in general insurance

The IFoA Sustainability Working Party’s climate scenarios sub-group explores use of climate scenarios in the non-life insurance industry and by regulators in assessing climate change impact. The authors focus on the developed insurance markets in North America and Europe.

Sustainability
Climate change disclosure
Climate Change

New climate change disclosures newsletter

The IFoA’s Climate Change Disclosures Working Party introduces its new climate change disclosures newsletter. The quarterly newsletter provides an update on disclosure requirements around the globe.

Sustainability
Climate change disclosure
Climate Change

Climate change disclosures newsletter: November 2024

The IFoA’s Climate Change Disclosures Working Party has published its November 2024 newsletter. It provides an update on disclosure requirements around the globe since the first newsletter in May 2024.

Sustainability
Biodiversity
Climate Change

Findings of the IFoA Climate and Sustainability Scenarios Committee

Nick Spencer, Chair of the IFoA’s Climate and Sustainability Scenarios Committee, introduces the committee’s findings and recommendations

Climate Change
Sustainability
IFoA

Climate action for professional bodies

What do professional bodies want? CLIMATE ACTION!

When do they want it? NOW!

Climate Change
Biodiversity
Sustainability

Assessing nature-related risks

This is part three in a series of blogs about nature-related risk from the IFoA’s Biodiversity Working Party. Here we look at some examples and tools on how financial organisations can assess nature-related risks and incorporate them into risk management frameworks.