Insurance perspectives on climate-related risks
Abstract
Emerging climate risks are bringing pressing challenges for insurers globally, as they face growing uncertainty in quantifying climate impacts from physical and transition risks. Climate risks are broad and can manifest through short-term changes and events, as well as long-term and sometimes irreversible changes, such as sea level rise and temperature increases. Significant economic changes are inevitable as countries transition and adapt to mitigate climate-related risks. Given the wide range of potential implications for insurers, we conducted a series of interviews with insurance practitioners and academic researchers to explore the diverse landscape of current perspectives on climate-related risks. The interviews considered how insurers can manage emerging climate risks and the role of pricing as a signal of risk. In the context of unknown unknowns for insurers in understanding long-term impacts of climate change, we identify the importance of scenario analysis in informing forward-looking drivers of change and the importance it plays in meeting evolving regulatory requirements.
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BibTeX
@misc{dong2026insurance,
title = {{Insurance perspectives on climate-related risks}},
author = {Michelle Dong and Aaron Bruhn and Francis K. C. Hui and Han Lin Shang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.12473},
eprint = {2610.12473},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12473},
note = {CC BY-NC-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Insurance perspectives on climate-related risks
AU - Michelle Dong
AU - Aaron Bruhn
AU - Francis K. C. Hui
AU - Han Lin Shang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.12473
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12473
AB - Emerging climate risks are bringing pressing challenges for insurers globally, as they face growing uncertainty in quantifying climate impacts from physical and transition risks. Climate risks are broad and can manifest through short-term changes and events, as well as long-term and sometimes irreversible changes, such as sea level rise and temperature increases. Significant economic changes are inevitable as countries transition and adapt to mitigate climate-related risks. Given the wide range of potential implications for insurers, we conducted a series of interviews with insurance practitioners and academic researchers to explore the diverse landscape of current perspectives on climate-related risks. The interviews considered how insurers can manage emerging climate risks and the role of pricing as a signal of risk. In the context of unknown unknowns for insurers in understanding long-term impacts of climate change, we identify the importance of scenario analysis in informing forward-looking drivers of change and the importance it plays in meeting evolving regulatory requirements.
ER -