Climate Resilience

Report Staying Above Water: A Systemic Response to Flood Risk

This report discusses critical points of failure in flood risk management and sets out an agenda for resilience in an increasingly complex risk landscape.

Report Global Risks Report 2023

Tougher trade-offs risk eroding climate action, human development and future resilience.

Report Advancing transition potential: Global Asset Manager Survey 2022

Improving capital flows to economies most vulnerable to the risks – and present realities – of climate change is a core component of implementing climate transition across the global economy and, in turn, investment portfolios. Mercer surveyed more than 400 global asset managers to better understand the current barriers to increasing capital allocations across emerging and frontier markets

Report Climate Journal 2022

Oliver Wyman's second annual Climate Journal presents examples of steps being taken now to bring the world closer to the ambitious goals established for 2050 and drills into four areas of critical importance; leadership, finance, business systems, and customers

Perspective Measuring and Managing Bank Climate Emissions

With global emissions targets set for 2050 and interim targets set for 2030, operationalization of activities to meet these targets will require banks to develop a number of new capabilities. These capabilities can be categorized into 4 main areas: new measurement, new reporting, new decision making and portfolio steering and new supporting operating models

Podcast COP15: Is "Nature" the new "Climate"?

The scale of nature loss has reached unprecedented levels — and nature-related risks are material to businesses. In response, global commitments to tackle environmental degradation are increasing. With the COP15 biodiversity conference currently underway, Swenja Surminski, Managing Director of Climate and Sustainability at Marsh McLennan Advantage, chats with experts across the fields of climate, finance and risk about why the global effort to halt biodiversity loss is so important for business

Podcast Risk in Context Podcast: Key learnings from COP27 as climate transition continues

In this episode of the Risk In Context podcast series, Marsh experts who were present at COP27 discuss their main learnings and actions that risk professionals, boards, and C-level executives should be considering in the journey to mitigate the impacts of climate change

Podcast Narrowing the Protection Gap: Climate Change and the Public Sector

As climate change continues to intensify, the number of severity of catastrophes is projected to increase. Disaster risk financing and public-private partnerships can open new opportunities to unlock risk capital and expand risk transfer solutions to tackle the rising impacts of climate change

Perspective The Nature and Insurance Nexus

As nature-related risks evolve and accelerate, it is critical that we transform the relationship between companies, societies, and the natural world

Perspective Finance pivots from risks to opportunities at COP27

COP27 focused on actioning key financial commitments. Energy security, enhanced data and voluntary carbon markets will all feed into actioning financial strategies discussed at COP27. Investors and financial institutions need to find the opportunities and navigate the risks a complex energy transition and changing world presents

Perspective World Energy Trilemma Index 2022

The Index presents a comparative ranking of the energy systems of 127 countries, estimating their Energy Security, Energy Equity, and Environmental Sustainability performance

Journal Accelerating the transition: From commitment to action

Perspectives from Marsh McLennan experts on the decarbonization of businesses and energy systems.

Perspective Getting Going: Breaking through the barriers to corporate climate action

Corporate climate practitioners from a range of sectors share their progress and challenges in their net-zero journey. This report offers insights from over 100 corporations on how companies can translate their commitments into climate action.

Perspective From Ambition to Reality: Five ways corporate banks can meet net zero commitments

Corporate banks can help clients navigate the net zero transition and strengthen their climate commitments.

Report Advancing the Transition: Seeking to mitigate risk and drive adaptation beyond COP27

With less than 30 years to achieve the net-zero target for emissions by 2050, the next phase of the climate transition will present substantial investment risks and opportunities globally.

Article Sustainable Underwriting: Key steps to achieving a net zero insurance balance sheet

Underwriters need to consider how and what emissions to measure, and how to decarbonize their portfolios. This piece explores how to achieve these goals while protecting profitability.