Description: This report examines weather conditions for daily maximum and minimum temperature (TMAX and TMIN), inland storm activity from wind, hail and tornadoes, record precipitation, tropical cyclone activity and the resultant flooding.

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

Description: The objective of this paper is to discuss the factors that affect and should be considered in the development of social discount rates, with a primary focus on social cost-benefit analyses of climate change-related strategies, programs, and investments involving mitigation and ex-ante adaption efforts.

Description: Climate change is occurring. As a result, insured and uninsured losses are increasing. Billion-dollar (CPI adjusted) disaster events have increased in each decade in which they have been tracked since 1980.

Description: A brief introduction to sustainability reporting for actuaries with no previous familiarity with it. The article focuses on UK insurance companies and gives a short overview of the reporting journey that UK insurance companies have been on, with the hope of smoothing the journey for others. The article briefly describes the development and adoption of the framework for sustainability reporting, and discusses some of the practical points and challenges encountered.

Description: The Mortality and Longevity and Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Programs are pleased to make available a report summarizing an expert panel brought together to discuss the impact of wildfires on U.S. health and life insurers.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Program is pleased to release the following essay exploring the Actuarial Role in addressing Severe Thunderstorm Risks.

Description: Excel spreadsheet for Extracting Subsets of Data from GHCN Daily Dataset.

Description: This report highlights three major weather stories that unfolded across the month of June: • A heat wave gripped much of Europe in the last week of June • An extreme wind event known as a “derecho” swept across a 1000-mile path in the United States (U.S.) on June 21, beginning in Nebraska and culminating in South Carolina • Widespread flooding continues throughout the Central U.S, with a significant impact on farming

Description: Heavy Precipitation in the U.S. Southeast, and Dry Conditions in California This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of February 2020.