EAA Web Session: Climate Day 3.0 – Actuaries & Climate Scientists Join Forces

The debate on climate change has rapidly evolved in recent years. It is no longer on whether the evidence of human impact on climate change is real, but on whether key mitigating strategies being adopted are sufficient.

It is becoming increasingly evident that the actuarial community’s understanding of climate risk is not yet as developed as its expertise on traditional insurance risks such as mortality risk. However, we have no good excuse to continue operating actuarial projection models over horizons of 40 years and beyond, without any allowance for climate change impacts. Yet how can we bridge the gap between complex climate models and complex actuarial models?

In our Climate Day, we address this challenge by leveraging actuarial know-how as well as that from climate science and data science in order to discuss the following questions:

• Which climate data challenges are we facing and how can we overcome them?
• How are atmospheric circulation, surface weather and climate extremes linked?
• Why does Net Zero represent a unique investment opportunity?
• How can we measure alignment of an asset portfolio with Net Zero?

Registration deadline: 9 June 2022