Catastrophe Risk in a Changing Climate
Extreme events like hurricanes, floods, and wildfires are among the primary ways that society feels the impacts of a changing climate. The insurance industry brings unique expertise to managing this problem, using tools called catastrophe models to not just understand how climate may drive changes in our most severe natural hazards, but placing those changes in the context of our built environment. This talk will cover what we know about how climate change affects extreme hazards, some of the unexpected ways in which these play out in the form of risk to people, property, and critical infrastructure, and how we can use what we have learned from the past to reduce our risk in the future.
