Catastrophe & Climate Resources
Table of Contents
Climate Risk - An Introduction
Physical Damage - Property & Agriculture
Climate-Related Disclosures - Risk Assessment & Scenario Analysis
Mitigation, Adaptation, Resilience and Sustainable Solutions
Data Sources, Tools and Indices
Call for Essays/Webcasts/Publications
Climate & Environmental Risks -Sources & Science
Lists introductory reports both published by the SOA Research Institute and other organizations.
Climate, Weather, and Environmental Sources for Actuaries, 2022 Update
Environmental Risk Series - Read this series of environmental risk research for actuaries.
Climate, Weather, and Environmental Sources for Actuaries - Read a collection of sources that deal with the questions of what do scientists know, and what could actuaries do regarding climate risk, environmental risks, and weather.
Climate Sources for Actuaries - This project initiated the development of a repository of information regarding existing climate and environmental sustainability research of interest to actuaries.
Life & Health Care Cost
Climate Impact on Tick-Borne Illnesses, July 2022
Climate Risk Analysis for Life and Health Insurance Companies, June 2022
Physical Damage - Property & Agriculture
A Hydro-EVT Approach to Flood Insurance Pricing, September 2022
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Inland Flood Risk by Mid Century, November 2021
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Wildfire Risk by Mid Century, September 2021
Trends in Normalized Weather-Related Property Losses in the United States: 1960–2018
Modeling, Measuring, and Pricing the Flood Risk
Incorporation of Flood and Other Catastrophe Model Results
Cyber Risk
Climate-Related Disclosures - Risk Assessment & Scenario Analysis
ESG for the Insurance and Pension Industry in Asia Pacific Markets, April 2023
Climate Risk Assessment and Scenario Analysis, March 2023
Climate Change and Investments: Making the Process Transparent, February 2023
TCFD Best Practices, February 2022
Managing Climate and Carbon Risk in Investment Portfolios
Mitigation & Adaption and Investments
Flood Risk Management and Adaptation Under Sea Level Rise Uncertainty, December 2022
The Impact of Disaster Events on Investments – Contagion Channels Perspective, October 2022
Social Discounting - Application to the Risk Management of Climate Change, September 2020
International Catastrophe Pooling for Extreme Weather
Data Sources, Tools, and Indices
Data Sources
Tools, Indices, and Models
Call for Essays/Webcasts/Publications
2021 From 9/11 to COVID-19: The Unthinkables Call for Essays
COVID-19 Visualizations of Interest to Actuaries – Access visualizations exploring the correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic and a theme of choice of the individual contributing authors.
2018 Environmental Sustainability Essays – Access the essay collection, which focuses on unknown knowns: where we have data but the future looks different from the past. The authors identify data sets or historical patterns of experience that are not predictive because something has changed, such as a slow trend or a discontinuity.
External Resources
International Actuarial Association
Sustainability and Climate Change practice area at Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFOA), UK
Canadian Institute of Actuaries - Climate Change and Sustainability Resources