Why Climate Risk is Making Insurance Renewals Harder
For many asset-heavy businesses, insurance renewal no longer feels like a routine exercise. Rates are softening, claims values are increasing, … Read more
Insights
Extreme weather in 2025: what climate attribution is telling us about rising risk — and the limits of adaptation
Executive summary World Weather Attribution’s year-end review of 2025 paints a consistent picture: extreme weather is occurring at concerning levels, … Read more
Increasing heavy rainfall and extreme flood heights in a warming climate threaten densely populated regions across Sri Lanka and the Malacca Strait
Executive summary Severe flooding across Sri Lanka and regions bordering the Malacca Strait in 2025 was driven by episodes of … Read more
Human-induced climate change compounded by socio-economic water stressors increased severity of 5-year drought in Iran and the Euphrates and Tigris basin
Executive summary A prolonged five-year drought affecting Iran and the Euphrates–Tigris river basin reached severe levels in 2025, placing acute … Read more
Heavy rainfall leading to widespread flooding in eastern Mexico disproportionately impacts highly exposed Indigenous and socially vulnerable communities
Executive summary Widespread flooding in eastern Mexico during 2025 followed episodes of intense rainfall that overwhelmed rivers and urban drainage … Read more
Climate change enhanced intensity of Hurricane Melissa, testing limits of adaptation in Jamaica and eastern Cuba
Executive summary Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica and eastern Cuba in 2025 as a powerful tropical cyclone, causing severe … Read more
Ten Years of the Paris Agreement: The Present and Future of Extreme Heat
Executive summary A decade after the Paris Agreement was adopted, extreme heat has emerged as one of the clearest and … Read more
Climate Change Risk Assessment: Why Waiting for New Climate Data Could Put Your Business Behind
Are your climate risk models already out of date? Most companies still treat climate-risk assessment as a compliance task – … Read more
National Security and Climate Change: When Intelligence Chiefs Sound the Alarm and What We Must Do Next
Earlier this month (October 2025), The Guardian published a report quoting a leaked or yet-to-be-released intelligence assessment: climate change and … Read more