Climate Resilience

Report Preparing for a Wetter World: Strategies for Corporate Flood Resilience

Business exposure to flood risk is growing, and it is critical for firms to uncover hidden vulnerabilities propagating through their value chain.

Report Quantifying Insurance Benefits of a Nature-based Approach to Reducing Risk

Faced with growing wildfire impacts around the world, communities are looking for innovative approaches to reduce the occurrence and impacts of wildfire.

Report MARSH MCLENNAN RESPONDS TO CLIMATE-RELATED EFFECTS ON THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Marsh McLennan is pleased to respond to this Request for Information from the Federal Insurance Office on the Insurance Sector and Climate-Related Risks.

Report World Energy Trilemma Index 2021

The Word Energy Trilemma Index presents a comparative ranking of the energy systems of 127 countries, estimating their performance across three dimensions: Energy Security, Energy Equity, and Environmental Sustainability.

Perspective How we can mobilize capital for breakthrough decarbonizing technologies

Early-stage decarbonization technologies are key to the net-zero transition. Here's how we can finance them.

Journal De-risking the Transition

An article series exploring the risks preventing investment in transformational low-carbon tech and business models — and how these can be overcome.

Perspective The Five Tensions Facing ESG Providers

The explosive growth of environmental, social and governance investing in the past few years is creating tensions that could make life more complicated for money managers and investors alike.

Perspective Boards of Directors and ESG

Many boards of directors have grappled with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters to varying degrees over the past year (or longer), and recent events indicate that a tipping point may have arrived. Key company stakeholders, including investors, employees, consumers, communities, and governments, continue to converge to address longstanding challenges around sustainability and other ESG topics. 

Video Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire

This year’s wildfire season is already shaping up to be worse than last year in terms of numbers. With increasing drought conditions combined with low humidity and strong winds, how do households, businesses, and communities build and prioritize resiliency?

Podcast The Hype Around Hydrogen: Part 1

In this episode of the Energy Current Podcast, Oliver Wyman Energy and Natural Resources Practice Partners Christine Oumansour and Alexander Lesch sit down with Andreas Wagner, Hydrogen lead at the Energy Transitions Commission to discuss how hydrogen can play a role in achieving net-zero goals and some of the key challenges on the path forward.

Perspective To Meet 2030 Decarbonization Targets, European Trucking Needs More Public-Private Cooperation

Regardless of specific technology, the way forward will require more European renewable energy capacity—and the support of public-private partnerships.

Perspective Construction Produces 25% of a Building’s Lifetime Emissions — But New Materials Are Changing This

With decarbonization, we are seeing innovation in the construction industry on a broad scale at seemingly breakneck speed — but can the insurance market keep up with it?

Perspective Risk Transfer Solutions for the Renewables Lifecycle

Traditional and evolving insurance products, as well as parametric solutions, can assist project owners, investors, lenders, and regulators to meet the changing renewables risk landscape head-on.

Perspective Investing in a Net-Zero Emissions Transition

Institutional investors, in growing numbers, are announcing their aims to reduce portfolio emissions to net-zero.

Perspective Going Beyond Investments — The Role of Commercial Underwriting in the Climate Transition

By offering cover to a range of industries, the insurance industry will play a crucial role in accelerating and de-risking the transition to a low-carbon economy and enabling an economically pragmatic pathway.

Perspective The Clean Energy Transition Starts with Company Culture

Companies will have to start now — and be nimble and decisive to stay ahead of the pack.