A new report has said that “Physical risks are shaking the core of insurance: insurability”.
This is according to Climate Change & Insurance: Physical risks on the Insurance Industry, a new paper by the Global Asia Insurance Partnership, which is the first in a series of three on the multi-dimensional issues around climate change mitigation.
In it, the report examines five key categories of physical risk: heat, precipitation, wind, cryosphere change and coastal and oceanic change.
“While each manifests differently, together they represent the most observable impacts of a warming world,” it said. Their effects cut across all lines of business, from rising claims to impacts on investment portfolios.
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