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Is insurance doomed?

2024/10/9
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Karen Clark:保险公司过去低估了气候灾难风险,其风险评估方法存在缺陷。飓风安德鲁证明了她的灾难模型的准确性,并促使保险行业重新评估气候风险。风险评估需考虑灾害可能性和暴露程度。 Meredith Hodnot & Umair Irfan:气候变化首先体现在保险费用的上涨上,这比灾害本身更早地影响到人们。保险费上涨和保险选择减少的问题,即使是保险业内人士也面临,这并非因为贪婪,而是因为风险评估的结果。 Joe Scuba:保险公司减少承保范围,导致许多房主无法获得保险,这会影响抵押贷款,迫使人们搬离高风险地区。 Meredith Hodnot & Carolyn Kuski:保险费上涨是多种因素造成的,包括通货膨胀和气候风险,这使得低收入人群难以负担保险。灾害模型在确定保险费率和免赔额方面发挥着重要作用,但这些模型需要考虑气候变化带来的风险变化。各种机构都需要气候风险信息,但这些信息的质量和适用性存在差异。当私人保险市场退出高风险地区时,政府往往会提供保险,但这可能会导致公共财政负担过重。 Meredith Hodnot:气候变化导致各种规模的极端天气事件增多,这使得保险损失增加,保险费上涨。全球再保险体系使得世界各地的灾难都会影响到个人的保险费。房产价值的增加是导致保险损失增加的主要因素,而人们向高风险地区迁移也加剧了这一问题。保险公司可以通过投资清洁能源和帮助投保人进行更具韧性的重建来降低气候风险。我们需要一种共享的风险管理文化来应对不断变化的风险。气候变化带来的风险日益增加,人们需要寻找应对方法。

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Karen Clark challenged traditional risk models, predicting a far greater impact from a hurricane hitting Miami than industry experts. Her models were validated by Hurricane Andrew, which caused widespread devastation and bankruptcies, revealing the industry's underestimation of climate-related risks.
  • Karen Clark's catastrophe model predicted $60 billion in losses from a Miami hurricane, 10 times higher than previous estimates.
  • Hurricane Andrew caused over $15 billion in damages, bankrupting nearly a dozen insurance companies.
  • Andrew's impact validated Clark's models and transformed the insurance industry's approach to climate risk.

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As the world gets warmer and storms get worse, insurance companies are jacking up rates — or refusing to cover homeowners altogether. Is the future uninsurable?

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