When an international organization sought to create guidelines on climate risk, insurance lobbying groups pushed back.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the housing market, homeowners insurance has become the embodiment of the effects of climate change. Over the past several ...

As climate change intensifies the frequency and severity of natural disasters across Europe, the gap between insured and total economic losses—known as the natural catastrophe insurance protection gap ...

Home insurance is a vital safeguard for protecting one of the most valuable assets many people own. However, in recent years, homeowners in climate risk areas have been facing steep increases in their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Climate change often feels distant—something discussed in headlines, not ...

Climate risk is no longer theoretical—it’s disrupting global financial systems in real time. Last year alone, weather-related disasters caused more than $368 billion in global economic losses, marking ...

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Ecuador has contracted its first parametric agricultural insurance policies, benefitting up to 10,000 people in smallholder rice and maize farming ...

Newcastle University experts are partnering on a new project to improve understanding of extreme weather risks caused by combined flooding and wind, and how we can better prepare for them.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath convened a statewide climate-risk insurance summit with the British Consulate-General Los Angeles to develop wildfire resilience solutions for ...