Climate Resilience

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 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.

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.

Video Navigating the Transition to a Low-Carbon, Resilient Future

Rob Bailey, Director, Marsh McLennan Advantage and Dr. Daniel Quiggin, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House discuss the strategies that government officials and institutions are focusing on in the transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy, as well as the long-term trends and opportunities to build net-zero futures.

Webtool Marsh McLennan Flood Risk Index

The Marsh McLennan Flood Risk Index showcases the firm’s unparalleled expertise in flood risk assessment and management. The index provides an overview of flood risk and its potential implications on human and economic systems across countries, and supports the commercial priorities linked to the climate resilience and protection gap megathemes.

Perspective Recycling Is Not Enough

The Variety Of Sustainable Packaging For Consumer Products Is Widening

Perspective The Path to Paris

Welcome to the Energy Current Podcast series, featuring conversations with industry leaders shaping the energy industry and related sectors. In this episode, join David Knipe, Christian Edelmann, and James Davis as they discuss how Europe's companies are progressing in their action on climate change.

Perspective Powering Your Sustainability Strategy Through Procurement

For many years, calls have been getting louder for business leaders to pay more attention to their organization's environmental, societal, and governance (ESG) strategy.