Description: This report provides a methodology for identifying climate regime shifts in different scenarios to prepare insurers for the impacts of climate change. It discusses physical tipping points, socio-economic tipping points, and regime shifts affecting the insurance industry, with a focus on wildfires in California and heat stress in the Pacific Northwest.

Description: This collection of articles, essays and research reports look at the impacts of excessive heat on mortality, morbidity, property damage, and other costs, and the applications to actuarial practice and quantification of risks resulting from excessive heat.

Description: This report examines weather extremes in precipitation, maximum water level, wind speed, and flooding associated with the time period and geographic area of Hurricane Laura over the period of August 24 to August 29, 2020.

Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of March 2020.

Description: Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program Newsletter, December 2021

Description: Supporting excel file for April 2021 weather extremes.

Description: On June 29, a weather system formed in the central Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of the Cabo Verde Islands. The system intensified as it traveled in a westerly direction across the Atlantic, achieving sufficient strength to be classified as a tropical storm on July 1, whereupon it was given the name “Elsa”.

Description: Supporting Excel file for Actuarial Weather Extremes Series, Tropical Storm Alex: June 4, 2022

Description: Supporting Excel file for Actuarial Weather Extremes Series Michigan EF-3 Tornado: May 20, 2022 report.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute commissioned a study to understand how insurers are responding to the framework used for climate disclosure practices, attempting to identify current practice and best and emerging practice. Used by firms to ensure they manage climate risk appropriately, the framework from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) focuses on disclosure of governance, risk management, strategy, and metrics.