Dave Jones On California's Wildfire Liability Deadlock
California built a roughly $20 billion fund to keep its utilities solvent after their equipment burns down towns. Last year, the Los Angeles inferno nearly drained it — and a few weeks ago the state g...
22 Sep 45min
Karl Mallon On Combating 'Climate Risk Washing'
With a cannot-be-missed deadline approaching for a VIP client, Karl Mallon’s team at physical risk analytics provider XDI found a mistake in data they’d already prepared to deliver. The debate inside ...
15 Sep 52min
Dan Ward On What AI Can — and Can't — Do for Cat Models
AI is disrupting everything — including how we estimate the financial shock of extreme weather events. For decades, insurers, reinsurers, and other financial institutions have relied on catastrophe (o...
8 Sep 38min
Andrew Rumbach On FEMA's Reform Reckoning
Few public organizations have attracted the ire of the Trump administration like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). America’s premier disaster response unit found itself the target of rig...
1 Sep 53min
Danya Liu On What's Really Driving Adaptation Markets
Financial losses from climate hazards are piling up. CEOs and major investors are sounding off in public on the perils of physical risks. But the market for adaptation solutions is yet to take off. Wh...
25 Aug 28min
Rachael Gauthier On the Science of Risk Communication
Adaptation cannot happen in a vacuum. People have to understand what climate and extreme weather risks look like and feel like ahead of time in order to respond appropriately. This is where accessible...
18 Aug 41min
Michael Newman On Hardening Homes Against Hail, Wind, and Fire
It’s a strange sort of research organization that spends its time finding ever more creative ways to destroy residential real estate. But that’s exactly what the Insurance Institute for Business & Hom...
11 Aug 40min
Nik Steinberg & Daisy Streatfeild On Why Climate Risk Vendors Can't Agree
Put seven leading physical risk vendors to the test on a single flood-prone stretch of road outside Paris, and here’s what you get: agreement on exactly one obvious hotspot, and violent disagreement e...
4 Aug 38min
