Insurers must focus on resilience and insurance protection gaps as physical climate shocks increasingly affect economies and financial systems.
In a speech at the 2nd Annual Conference on Sustainable Finance at the Banco de México, James Talbot, Executive Director for International at the Bank of England and the Bank’s Executive Sponsor for climate, said that physical climate shocks can affect inflation and output.
Talbot said that the insurance industry must do more to assess and respond to them.
The warnings are not coming from the Bank alone. At Insurance Investor Live | Europe 2026 in September, Philippe Trainar, Member of the Scientific Committee at the French Prudential Supervision and Regulation Authority and Chief Economist at SCOR, told the audience that the risk universe insurers now operated in was expanding on almost every axis.
He described the current environment as one in which existing risks were intensifying rather than being replaced by wholly new ones. Credit risk was one clear example of this intensification, alongside geopolitical threats and natural catastrophe exposure.
Growing public distrust of large technology companies, he suggested, risked undermining the productivity gains needed to address challenges including climate change.
The warning also comes as the world begins to feel the effects of a “monster” El Nino.
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