Climate Proofers

With a cannot-be-missed deadline approaching for a VIP client, Karl Mallon’s team at physical risk analytics provider XDI found a mistake in data they’d already prepared to deliver. The debate inside the company...

AI is disrupting everything — including how we estimate the financial shock of extreme weather events. For decades, insurers, reinsurers, and other financial institutions have relied on catastrophe (or ‘cat’) models to...

Few public organizations have attracted the ire of the Trump administration like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). America’s premier disaster response unit found itself the target of right-wing conspiracy...

Financial losses from climate hazards are piling up. CEOs and major investors are sounding off in public on the perils of physical risks. But the market for adaptation solutions is yet to take off. Why? In this episode...

Adaptation cannot happen in a vacuum. People have to understand what climate and extreme weather risks look like and feel like ahead of time in order to respond appropriately. This is where accessible and informative...

It’s a strange sort of research organization that spends its time finding ever more creative ways to destroy residential real estate. But that’s exactly what the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) was...

Put seven leading physical risk vendors to the test on a single flood-prone stretch of road outside Paris, and here’s what you get: agreement on exactly one obvious hotspot, and violent disagreement everywhere else...

Climate change is laying waste to US homes. Economic losses in North America — including to residential property — from storms, floods, fires, and other shocks exceeded US$133bn (...

Ask a large company about their climate exposure and you may be dismissed with the answer: "We're insured, we're fine." David Fischer ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-n-fischer-56249849/ ) has spent his career...

Understanding corporations’ exposure to physical risks — and their resilience to them — is essential to building a climate-proof economy. But if this information is manufactured by black box models and hidden behind...

This episode is sponsored by Resilens ( https://resilens.com/ ), a "decision engine" for climate adaptation When adaptation managers approach funders with a climate-proofing measure, there's one question they can count...

What do investors, corporate practitioners, and climate professionals really think about the consequences of rising climate physical risks? A recent survey by Climate Proof and Theia Finance Labs (...

There’s good news and bad news on the state of corporate adaptation planning. Today’s guest — Climate Proof veteran Dr Paul Munday ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpaulmunday/ ) from S&P Global Ratings — joins the pod to...

If you work in corporate sustainability, this pitch has become well-worn: climate resilience is good for business. Protect your assets, buttress your supply chains, and reap the rewards when trouble stirs. It's a...

Working in climate risk management at a US bank this past decade, you'd be forgiven for having a little whiplash. Starting around 2015, central banks and financial supervisors started probing lenders on their climate...