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The Epicenter’s Insurance Resiliency Thought Leadership page provides quick and easy access to information about the insurers, NGOs, community leaders, philanthropies, and advocacy organizations leading the dialogue on the insurance sector’s role in climate risk and resilience.
Whether to conduct a competitive scan, research potential partners, or learn from others, these links illustrate the breadth of approaches and motivations driving resilience innovation, as well as the diversity of potential partners for any organization seeking to engage.
Insurance Thought Leaders
Industry
How are insurance industry leaders already implementing adaptation and resilience innovation?
- American Family Climate Action Strategy: Presents American Family Insurance’s 2020-2030 strategy. (Ongoing)
- Allianz Commercial launches Climate Adaptation & Resilience Services (CAReS): Translates physical climate risks into financial and physical loss metrics at portfolio and location level and helps businesses to manage these risks with resilience consultancy. (Ongoing)
- Aon: Provides insights into the firm’s climate advisory services. (Ongoing)
- AXA Research Fund: Provides overviews of 254 projects that the AXA Research Fund has supported. (Ongoing)
- Gallagher Re: Provides an overview of insights, capabilities, and projects. (Ongoing)
- Howden Climate Risk and Resilience: Provides an overview of the various projects and initiatives being pursued by this global brokerage. (Ongoing)
- Liberty Mutual Climate Resiliency Initiative: Provides a link to the firm’s 2024-26 initiative. (Ongoing)
- Marsh McLennan Resilience Hub: Provides an overview of approaches and projects to advance resilience. (Ongoing)
- Munich Re Foundation’s Climate risk and adaptation: Provides white papers on multiple insurance resilience projects. (Ongoing)
- Swiss Re Group Climate Change: Provides an overview of Swiss Re’s various efforts on climate change. In addition, its public sector practice also provides reports on cutting-edge projects. (Ongoing)
- Willis Towers Watson: Provides an overview of insights, capabilities, and projects. (Ongoing)
- Zurich Climate resilience: Provides an overview of social, commercial, and other efforts. (Ongoing)
Community
How do communities prepare themselves to engage the insurance ecosystem for solutions, support, and guidance?
- Insurance for Good: Serves as a community of practice for communities and other public sector bodies that curates frameworks, delivers capacity-building programs and incubate open-source risk transfer approaches.
- Government Finance Officers Association: Develops tools and insights to prepare finance heads for state and local governments for large scale disasters (for example, GFOA’s popular Rainy Day Calculator).
- GEOS Institute: Focuses on enabling community-level access to the tools, analytics, and other materials required to advance responsible climate planning. GEOS sponsors the Southeast Navigators Network and other technical assistance programs.
- National League of Cities: Provides a series of policy, operational, and training capabilities for 3,000 towns, villages, and cities, focusing on pre-event climate risk reduction.
- SBP: Provides training to local government officials and places full-time Fellows into communities to facilitate grant applications, conduct community engagement, and guide other resilience services.
Building Standards
How should we construct buildings and homes in the U.S. to enhance safety and insurability?
- IBHS: Sets the standard for insurable building and construction.
- Smart Home America: Focuses exclusively on promoting IBHS Fortified standards by states and local communities.
- International Code Council: Advocates for the strengthening and promotion of building codes globally.
- National Institute of Building Sciences: Convenes builders, owners, developers, architects, and insurers to address risk design issues.
Advocacy
How does public policy create the enabling environment for transformational change?
- BuildStrong America: Pursues resilience funding and policy incentives at federal and state levels through multi-stakeholder coalitions.
- United Policyholders: Represents California policy holders in regulatory and legislative matters.
- Reinsurance Association of America: Represents U.S. reinsurance sector as the most climate-engaged insurance trade association in the U.S.
- Smart Home America: Provides information on building specific risk reduction, and is the primary proponent behind state funding of IBHS Fortified Home designation.
- U.S. Chamber: Represents U.S. businesses as large lobbying organization.
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