Unlike traditional investment risks, climate change-related risks are characterized by fundamental uncertainty and a lack of historical data. European insurance companies as key asset owners, recognize that climate change poses a significant financial threat.
Ortec Finance’s ‘Climate risk assessment – European insurance companies’ provides a climate risk analysis of a reference European insurance company’s portfolio by quantifying the annual, cumulative and cumulative annualized impacts at asset class level under the 2024 Ortec Finance Climate Scenarios.
Discover how and why our analysis shows that:
- Transition risk is the most significant and imminent climate risk facing European insurance companies.
- Physical risks are expected to have the greatest negative impact on European insurers investment portfolios in the long-term.
- The greatest harm to a European insurer’s investment portfolio is likely to arise from either: 1) short-term drastic and uncoordinated policy changes or 2) long-term failure to undertake the low-carbon transition.
Download the report – Climate risk assessment – European insurance companies
This study utilizes a top-down climate scenario analysis approach has been undertaken with ClimateMAPS - Ortec Finance’s climate scenario analysis solution.
Learn more about the solution here.
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Doruk Onal
Climate Risk Consultant