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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · Mar 25

A stark warning from insurance giant Allianz:

"We are fast approaching warming levels where insurers won't be able to offer coverage for many climate risks. The premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening"...

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Climate, Risk, Insurance: The Future of Capitalism

CO₂ emissions directly increase the amount of energy trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere. This is not a vague or future issue—it is physical reality.

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 17h

How boards can use insurance to fully manage climate risk

Boards must treat it as a lever to incentivize resilience and drive adaptation investment, eg, understand how housing, transport, supply chains & resources intersect with business continuity www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

How boards can use insurance to fully manage climate risk

As shocks become more systemic, company boards need new ways to manage climate risk, but common insurance assumptions can create blind spots for some.

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 18h

Over half of global business leaders say their organization is prepared for the impacts of climate change, ie, "we have a plan"

“But the real test is whether those plans translate into decisions, investments, and operational resilience"...

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Why Most CEOs Are Wrong About The Climate Readiness Gap

Executives say they’re ready for climate disruption, but data reveal a costly gap between confidence and capability — and a business world mistaking plans for resilience.

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 21h

"Disasters are becoming more frequent, more costly, and more devastating. While direct disaster costs have grown to approx. $202B annually, the Disaster Risk Reduction report 2025 estimates that the true cost, is 11 times higher at nearly $2.3T."

This should be the theme every day of the year!

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 19h

Shouldn’t polluters, not taxpayers, pay for disaster assistance?

"climate change could erase $1.4 trillion in U.S. real estate value over the next three decades"...

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 19h

Investing in resilience and anticipatory support before climate shocks hit can be up to five times more cost-effective than traditional post-disaster aid - new @iied.bsky.social report

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Waiting until disaster strikes hurting aid as early action ‘5 times more effective’

Under the current system, governments and donors respond after disasters occur, through humanitarian relief or emergency social protection payments. But researchers say these measures are inefficient ...

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 19h

Climate investment is the only growth opportunity of the 21st century

“The world desperately needs to increase the rate of growth, and low-carbon is the only feasible longer-run growth on offer; high-carbon growth self-destructs”, warns Sir Nicholas Stern
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 1d

The third episode of @overshootpod.bsky.social is out now!

We meet the pensioner who looked into her pension fund's due diligence on climate change

What she found was shocking...

Featuring @carbontracker.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and more

Listen now👇
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Overshoot podcast – a world beyond 1.5C

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change. What happens next? In this four-part documentary series, we explore the huge challenges that come from 1.5°C overshoot. We meet the people with ...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Interesting.

equator

A new world is emerging from the ruins of the liberal order. But the West’s prestigious publications are ill-equipped to comprehend its challenges – and its possibilities. Enter Equator, an internatio...

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 22h

While climate damages hit a towering US$1.4trn in 2024, most developed nations remain underprepared to weather intensifying climate shocks, according to new analysis from BloombergNEF
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Canada, Singapore and UK Among Countries Most Prepared for Climate Change, BloombergNEF’s New Ranking of Climate Adaptation Preparedness Finds | BloombergNEF

BloombergNEF’s new framework and scorecard provides a tool for investors to analyze country-level climate risk and resilience.

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 1d

"Some towns may have to be abandoned": in England, the number of properties at risk from flooding is set to increase from 6.3 to 8 million, with the number of properties in high-risk areas for flash flooding likely to increase by up to 66% by mid-century
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Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 4d

This is not exactly at city level, rather at a small region-level (NUTS3 in EU parlance), but the qualitative analysis may be useful:

www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 4d

Most welcome! 😀

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 4d

"Recent developments in the insurance industry suggest Thallinger’s concern (expressed in post below) is widely shared. As long as policymakers fail to act on the signals they’re sending, insurers’ ability to tackle this problem will be limited"

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 6d

"Scientists warn that if current trends in sea level rise continue, more than 45% of the Delta could be submerged within decades, displacing millions and jeopardising Vietnam’s food security"

#Vietnam 🇻🇳
#ClimateEmergency

The Mekong Delta’s climate defences are failing

Infrastructure projects to keep out seawater have been plagued by failures. Experts say Vietnam must shift from hard fixes to nature-based solutions

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 4d

“Climate risks will be wide-reaching and secular, not narrow and cyclical. Those at risk include homeowners, banks, insurers, and holders of securitized mortgages"

- Kevin Stiroh, former Fed official

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ex-Fed Official Sees Secular ‘Shocks’ Ahead From Extreme Weather

The Federal Reserve’s former top-ranking official overseeing climate risk says the US economy faces a series of long-term, structural shocks as a result of increasingly extreme weather patterns.

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 5d

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‘Social macro’: a new frontier for climate risk

Addressing climate social risks is key for climate policy and financial risk management, write analysts Alexander Weston and Judith Tyson.

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 5d

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy

Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 5d

Cost of Europe's extreme weather doubled this decade - and could hit €126 billion by 2029

“Protecting nature is not a cost: it is an investment in competitiveness, resilience, and the well-being of citizens” - @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu

www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Cost of Europe's extreme weather has doubled this decade

Europe is being forced to foot an ever-growing bill as damage from weather and climate-related extremes exceeded €44.5 billion in recent years.

www.euronews.com

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 5d

very thoughtful piece, thanks for sharing!

Quick note, FWIW, that in France at least, high school students are still supposed to have read a number of novels each year (and most do, it seems)

Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 5d

yes - and "social macro" is a powerful channel for "derailment risk"

Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 5d

more than that, I reckon, over the lifetime of his youngest child...

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Climate Change causing 400,000 deaths per year

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 5d

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 5d

#Climaterisk: Japan’s largest non-life insurer is betting its acquisition of an engineering consultancy that specialises in natural disaster mitigation can help keep customers’ expenses in check as climate change raises recovery costs
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Japan’s top insurer bets on engineering acquisition to mitigate climate risk

Tokio Marine’s purchase of design consultancy part of push to rein in clients’ costs as weather patterns change

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 6d

State capture on an epic scale...