Industry Segments: Climate Page 3 / 28
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- October 3 2024
Australia poised for severe thunderstorms, elevated bushfire risks this spring: Gallagher Re
Unusually high maximum and minimum temperatures will affect the country by at least three times more likely than normal, according to the reinsurance broker's climate outlook report.
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- October 3 2024
ICA extreme weather charter calls for collaboration with governments, community groups for delivery of services
The charter outlines disaster preparation, response and recovery recommendations for general insurers, who have paid out US$13bn in claims from 20 ICA-declared events since the Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20.
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- October 3 2024
Opinion: What has happened to the ESG agenda?
While financial services jargon changes with each decade, time has shown that it is the policy that matters, not the presentation.
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- October 2 2024
Reinsurers’ risk insights, modelling vital to taming escalating nat cat losses: Swiss Re
Besides providing capacity, the reinsurer's expertise and insights on risks related to climate change and renewable energy are key to its collaboration with insurers in limiting nat cat losses, says Victor Kuk.
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- October 1 2024
Crawford Malaysia names Mohammad Aminuddin as head of Pahang branch
The loss adjuster has also brought in Nazirul Jabri Bin Roslee as senior adjuster as it looks to strengthen its capabilities ahead of the monsoon season.
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- September 30 2024
Typhoon Krathon expected to make ‘rare’ direct hit on Taiwan’s western plains
The tropical storm, likely to intensify into a super typhoon, is forecast to hit the major port city of Kaohsiung early on October 2 and make its way to Japan.
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- September 30 2024
Seadrif targets Asean expansion as it ramps up advocacy to tackle bottlenecks
While it has achieved success in Laos, a significant protection gap persists in the region, highlighting the need for improved data management and government support for effective disaster risk solutions, chairman Yoshihiro Kawai tells IAN.
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- September 27 2024
De-risking climate change requires ‘active adaptation’: EAIC panel
Targeted policy measures to address structural drivers of cat losses, better data collection, including individual exposures, and modelling are needed to combat climate risks.
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- September 26 2024
Q&A: Global warming is creating uncertainty in valuation of physical assets
Chelsea Jiang, Axa’s chief technical and innovation officer, general insurance for Greater China, shares her views on parametric, how companies can guard against convective storms, and HK’s role in narrowing China’s protection gap.
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- September 24 2024
Climate change, green transition and geopolitics reshaping marine insurance
The growing importance of Asia underlined the 150th annual International Union of Marine Insurance conference where geopolitical tensions, extreme weather risks, and energy transition dominated discussions.
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- September 23 2024
Japan’s flooding and landslides cause power cuts, casualties in quake-hit Noto Peninsula
More than 100,000 people have been ordered to be evacuated in Ishikawa and Kumamoto prefectures with 6,000 households left without power Japan and train services suspended as Japan Meteorological Agency issued its highest "life-threatening" alert level following torrential rains in the region.
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- September 16 2024
Typhoon Yagi inflicts US$1.6bn in damages to Vietnam, to impact GDP growth
The super storm impacted 26 Vietnamese localities that collectively represent 41% of the country’s GDP and 40% of its population.
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- September 16 2024
Severe Typhoon Bebinca grounds flights, rail services and shut resorts as it lands in Shanghai
The strongest to hit Shanghai in 75 years, the meteorological bureau warns of heavy downpour and flooding risks for Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces up to September 18.
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- September 13 2024
Super typhoon Yagi hit Vietnamese insurers with US$285m in claims payout
PVI Insurance, the largest non-life carrier, called it "a historically undesirable loss for Vietnam’s insurance industry" and for the company. The 9,000 claims filed are expected to keep rising, Ministry of Finance said.
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- September 13 2024
China braces for typhoon Bebinca as Yagi slaps US$11bn economic losses on Hainan: report
The country’s meteorological bureau issued a blue alert for its 13th typhoon of the year warning of heavy rain in Zhejiang, and Shanghai. This followed local media reports pointing to escalating economic losses that super typhoon Yagi caused to Hainan.
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- September 12 2024
Thai insurers brace for losses as Yagi remnants raise flood risk
Thailand’s meteorological department said more heavy rain is expected until September 18 with the risk of flash floods, as a northern monsoon trough is moving down and a southern one is gaining strength.
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- September 12 2024
Data crucial for Asia’s renewable drive as offshore wind power gains momentum
With the region prone to nat cat risks such as earthquakes and typhoons, demand for data is rising as (re)insurers are looking to better understand the risk profiles of the growing numbers of renewable projects such as offshore wind farms.
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- September 11 2024
Japan, Australia are top two APAC markets most sensitive to rise in nat cat claims: S&P
Insured annual catastrophe losses averaged US$6.6 billion in Japan, and US$2.5 billion in Australia over a ten-year period. China ranked third in Asia, at US$1.7 billion, according to the rating agency.
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- September 5 2024
Pacific islands cat pool PCRIC mulls expansion into private sector cover
The captive for the island nations is looking at extending parametric solutions to the underserved private sectors such as tourism, fisheries, and utilities, according to chief executive Aholotu Palu.
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- September 4 2024
Asia cat exposure growth outpaces other regions as global annual losses top US$151bn: Verisk
Exposure growth amid rapid urban expansion is one of the main contributors to annual increase in losses alongside inflation; while climate change accounts for just 1% of losses.
