Global risk landscape
Disaster risk financing
Disaster risk finance analytics
Counting the cost of calamities
The rise of interconnected risks
The FM Global Research Campus
Global reinsurance: strengthening DRR
The Anthrpocene reality of financial risk
Covering the cost of natural devastation
Developing new insurance risk products
The role of insurance after disaster strikes
Resilience and risk financing mechanisms
Financial protection against natural disasters
G7 InsuResilience for more resilient societies
Businesses step up for disaster preparedness
Forestry insurance: a largely untapped potential
Under insurance of property risks: closing the gap
Risk insurance and adaptation: managing urban risk
Why all development finance should be risk-informed
Reducing the fiscal and economic impact of disasters
Building disaster-resilient communities and economies
UNDP launches new insurance and risk finance facility
Costs of natural disasters are increasing at the high end
DamageMap: a post-wildfore damaged building classifie
DRR and international catastrophe risk insurance facility
Disaster microinsurance: an innovation for transformation
Dull disasters? How planning ahead will make a differencer
Megacities: pushing the boundaries of the insurance industry
Not a silver bullet - is insurance a distraction from real solutions
Developing an institutional framework to address loss and damage
Insurers' contribution to disaster reduction - a series of case studies
Insurance industry will respond with new tools to growing disaster risk
New partnerships between the public and private sectors to finance disaster risks
Harnessing the full potential of the insurance industry in disaster risk management
Building community cyclone resilience academic and insurance industry partnership
A calculated risk: how donors should engage with risk financing and transfer mechanisms
Environmental, social and governance factors in country risk management - a new horizon
Industrialization and technology has resulted in accidents with uncontrolled chemical release
Pipeline of investable opportunities and sufficient data needed to scale up green investments
New guidance for policymakers on supporting farmers through satellite-based crop insurance
Climate related insurance:
The financial management of flood risk
Climate insurance and water-related DRM
Tropical cyclones to cause greater damage
Climate change challenges insurance sector
Loss and damage: climate reality on the 21st century
Sustainable infrastructure - weathering the storms (Marsh)
Weather-related loss and damage rising as climate warms
Insurance gains clout as climate change solution for the poor
'It's important to look at the broader picture' of climate change
Insurance industry paying increasing attention to climate change
Warming of the oceans and implications for the (re)insurance industry
An integrated approach to managing extreme events and climate risks
New insurance solutions to protect states particularly vulnerable to climate
Financial instruments for managing disaster risks related to climate change
The stakeholder landscape in extreme events and climate risk management
Traditional approaches 'increasingly fail' insurance industry in time of climate change
Effectiveness of insurance for DRR and climate change: challenges and opportunities
Climate change and the insurance industry: taking action as risk managers and investors
Insurance industry taking action in addressing climate change ,although external hurdles remain
Loss & damage to communities, despite coping & adaptation: evidence from front lines of climate change
Defining loss & damage: the science and politics around one of the most contested issues within UNFCCC
Risk Modelling:
Risk modeling for appraising named peril index insurance products
Towards disaster-risk sensitive investments: the disaster risk-integrated operational risk model
Using probabilistic models to appraise and decide on sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance
Insurance Company specific:
FM insurance testing video
FM Global Resilience Index
Lloyds global underinsurance report
Guy Carpenter microinsurance facilities
Global risk investment may RISE with UN Willis-backed initiative
Geneva Association calls on governments to act on disaster risks
Lloyd's City Risk Index shows $4.6 trillion GDP is at risk across 301 cities
Annual disaster reports & statistics:
Human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years (2000-2019)
Natural disasters since 1900: over 8 million deaths and 7 trillion USD damage
A comparative review of country-level and regional disaster loss and damage databases
Reports released for 2020:
WorldRiskReport 2021
The WEF Gobal Risks Report 2020
Aon: Weather, climate & catastrophe insight 2020
US hit by 16 billion-dollar disasters this year, so far
Counting the cost 2020: a year of climate breakdown
Reports released for 2019:
Relevant loss events worldwide Jan-June 2019
Munich Re natural catastrophes in the first half of 2019
Munich Re tropical cyclones causing billions in losses dominate nat cat picture of 2019
Reports released for 2018:
Loss map 2018 worldwide
Allianz Risk Barometer 2018
Disaster 2018: year in review
2018 natural catastrophes in $
The WEF Global Risks Report 2018
Munich Re: the natural disasters in 2018
AON weather, climate & catastrophe insight 2018
Counting the cost: 2018 a year of climate breakdown
Munich Re: Fewer severe natural disasters in tthe first half of 2018: overall losses below average
Reports released for 2017:
Natural disasters over the first semester of 2017
Natural disasters 2017: lower mortality, higher cost
Weather, climate and catastrophe insight - 2017 Annual Report Aon Benfield
Swiss Re: Global insured losses from disaster events in 2017 were the highest ever
Reports released for 2016:
Munich Re: Natural catastrophes 2016
Aon: 2016 Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report
Swiss Re: Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2016
Reports released for 2015:
2015 Disasters in numbers
World disasters report 2015
Aon: global catastrophe recap - January 2016
Disasters in Asia and the Pacific: 2015 in review
Munich Re: El Nino curbs losses from natural catastrophes in 2015
Munich Re: natural catastrophes 2015 - analyses, assessments, positions
Swiss Re: Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2015: Asia suffers substantial losses
Reports released for 2014:
Swiss Re H1 2014
2014 natural hazards risk atlas
Zurich: Xaver tested flood defences severely
UN says natural disasters cost $2.5T since 2000
2014 annual global climate and catstrophe report
Disasters in Asia and the Pacific: 2014 year in review
Comapratively few major natural catastrophe losses in first half-year 2014
Ceres: 2014 US insurer climate risk disclosure survey report and scorecard
Preliminary sigma estimates: global disaster events cost insurers $34B in 2014
Maplesoft: climate change and lack of food security multiply risk of conflict and civil unrest in 32 countries
Munich RE: review of natural catastrophes in 2014 - lower losses from weather extremes and earthquakes
Reports released for 2013:
Loss events in 2013
Annual disaster statistical review 2013
Maplecroft's natural hazard risk atlas 2013
2013 Annual global climate and catastrophe report
2103 disaster losses lower than decade average - reinsurers
Floods dominate natural catastrophe statistics in first half of 2013
Natural disasters pproduced $192bn global economic loss in 2013, while insurers face $45bn bill
Overall picture of natural catastrophes in 2013 dominated by weather extremes in Europe and Haiyan
2013 preliminary losses: natural catastrophes and man-made disasters cost insurers worldwide $44 Bn
Reports released for 2012:
Global Risks 2012 (WEF)
China: natural disasters leave 1338 dead in 2012
People displaced by disasters: global estimates 2012
Sigma: natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2012
A review of natural disasters in 2012 - the year of recurring disasters
Munich Re: Topics GEO - Natural catastrophes 2012 Part 1 Part 2
Disasters displaced over 32 million people in 2012, rising trend forecast
NOAA: Peliminary info on 2012 US $ billion extreme weather/climate events
Weather cost the world $85 billion so far this year. Only 1/4 of that was insured
Natural catastrophe statistics for 2012 dominated by weather extremes in the USA
Sigma preliminary estimates for 2012: total losses US$140 billion of which $65 billion re/insured
Reports released for 2011:
World risk report 2011
GFDRR annual report 2011
MunichRe: natural catastrophes 2011
Extreme events and insurance: 2011 annus horribilis
Heavy disaster losses for insurance companies in 2011
Annual disaster statistical review 2011 - the numbers and trends
The year that shook the rich: a review of natural disasters in 2011
Global risks 2011 - an initiative of the risk response network (WEF)
Munich Re: Review of Natural Catastrophes in 2011:Earthquakes result in record loss year
Reports released for 2010:
2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards
Europe faces $2.2bn economic loss from December wind storm
Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010 - the numbers and trends
2010 Swiss Re: natural catastrophes & man-made disasters - USD 218B losses & cost insurers USD 43B
Regional Specific:
North America:
US Natural catastrophes
Insuring against natural disaster risk in Mexico
Climate change threatens US mortgage market
New study asks: is flood insurance viable in Canada?
More than 6.8 million US homes at risk of storm surge in 2016
Quantifying the impact from climate change on US hurricane risk
Risky busines: US insurance industry inaction on climate change
Coastal, riverbank homeowners brace for US flood insurance hike
The most expensive natural disasters in the US since 1980, visualized
State of Florida hurricane/storm surge/coastal flooding risk assessment
US: Overwhelming risk - rethinking flood insurance in a world of rising seas
Options for managing flood costs of Canada's highest risk residential properties
North America most affected by increase in weather-related natural catastophes
Latin America & Caribbean:
The property protection gap in Latin America
Natural disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean 2000-2019
Europe:
UK Home Flood Insurance
Study outlines EU approach to loss databases
Insurance instruments and disaster resilience in Europe
Real estate climate risks: how will Europe be impacted?
Climate change will unevenly impact the European financial system
EU guidelines for recording and sharing disaster damage and loss data
Economic losses and fatalities from weather-climate related events in Europe
Reflection on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and DRR in the EU
Insurance, public assistance and household flood risk reduction: a study of Austria, England and Romania
Asia:
Insuring against Asia's natural catastrophes
Oceania:
Austraila & New Zealand: expect te unexpected
Rapid rising insurance premiums in Northern Australia