Small icebergs broken off from the large glacier at Vatnajökull, Iceland.
The effects of climate change aren’t just reshaping our physical world. They are also disrupting the market in profound ways. Read our infographic to understand what’s driving market interest in climate change, how the insurance industry is responding, and how RMS can help.
Responsible organizations want to know their exposure to climate change risk. There is an urgent need to assess and quantify the extent of the rising physical risk caused by climate change – how much it has already changed and what will happen in the future. And with growing interest from stakeholders – from regulators, investors, and customers, all requiring answers, RMS can help.
For more than 15 years, RMS has worked with partners and stakeholders to understand how climate change affects perils and regions around the globe and to progress toward solutions to quantify the risk. Building a more resilient world is the essence of the RMS mission. By demystifying the risks of climate change, we are committed to helping organizations of every type factor climate change into their strategic outlook.
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RMS continually develops its models to better reflect climate change and works with the market and clients to create solutions to understand and meet current and future needs. As this development continues, we are assisting clients to quantify the impact of climate change through bespoke analyses.
RMS models use data capturing most of the climate change since the start of the preindustrial era. As additional evidence emerges, this is incorporated to stay up to date with the latest research from the scientific community.
Financial regulators and rating agencies are now paying close attention to the potential impact climate change could have on increased catastrophe losses and asset prices. RMS has recently helped clients with “stress-test” submissions to their regulators.
From local to central governments, corporations, and NGOs, RMS has a pedigree in helping partners understand the physical impact of climate change, to quantify the risks and costs and devise the best solutions to build resilience.
RMS has strong, long-standing partnerships with a wide range of organizations around the world, as we contribute our risk model experience and expertise to this ongoing conversation.
RMS worked with QBE to examine the impact of climate change on North Atlantic hurricanes and tropical cyclones in Australia through to 2100. Learn More
With the U.K. PRA regulator introducing stress tests for climate change scenarios, RMS helps clients to meet the challenge. Learn More
As wildfires rage in California, RMS discusses how climate change has impacted the state to create conducive conditions. Learn More
A new drought stress-test tool devised by RMS is launched by the Natural Capital Alliance. Learn More
Broward County, Florida, commissions RMS to assess rising coastal storm surge risk. Learn More
RMS partners with the Delaware Department of Transport to calculate the risk of sea level rise to the state’s road network. Learn More
The value of natural defenses to mitigate sea level rise is highlighted in a joint RMS, Lloyd's, and Guy Carpenter report. Learn More
RMS helps the City of San Francisco develop a Sea Level Rise Action Plan revealing the city had $77 billion of property at risk. Learn More
Working with the Rockefeller Foundation, RMS examined how resilience bonds could help to fund mitigating infrastructure projects. Learn More
RMS partners with Risky Business to publish a report revealing the risk of sea level rise to eastern U.S. coastal regions. Learn More
RMS contributes to a Lloyd's report entitled Catastrophe Modeling and Climate Change. Learn More
Robert Muir-Wood, chief research officer for RMS, is a lead author for the 2011 IPCC Special Report on Extremes.
RMS works with Lloyd’s to publish Coastal Communities and Climate Change report looking at the impacts of coastal flooding by 2030 in high-risk areas.
Robert Muir-Wood, chief research officer for RMS, is a lead author on Insurance, Finance, and Climate Change for the fourth IPCC report.
RMS introduced medium-term rates for North Atlantic hurricane to capture recent trends in hurricane activity.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has celebrated its 50th year at its annual meeting in Davos. Increasingly the business/political nexus has become that articulated in WEF founder Klaus Schwab’s Davos Manifesto, that corporations “… must assume the role of a trustee of the material universe for future generations.” In 2020, “action on climate change” has now become the number one risk in terms of impact in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk…
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