The insurance industry should consider atmospheric and remote influences as well as sea surface temperature when modelling hurricane risk, the Met Office said today.
The negative impact oil, gas and coal price spikes have on the UK could be more than halved by using low carbon forms of electricity generation and increasing energy efficiency, the Department for Energy and Climate Change said today.
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Fears of fuel poverty increasing significantly in the next 20 years are strongest in Europe, according to a report published today by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Investment in the Arctic could reach $100bn or more over the next 10 years but strong governance and risk management is needed to mitigate the regions many challenges and risks, according to Lloyds.
In the second part of his travel tales of a pensions actuary, Nick Silver finds vodka a useful aperitif to applying actuarial methods to climate change risks in Tajikistan
The discovery of 75 previous unseen ships log books from April 1912 prove the Titanic disaster was caused by the extraordinary power of nature, according to Titanic expert Tim Maltin.
Aprils reinsurance renewal rates have continued their rising trend seen in January as the market continues to work through the impact of the events of 2011, according to Guy Carpenter.
