Property and casualty actuaries are uniquely positioned to evaluate climate-related risk and help organizations navigate an evolving risk landscape. Through trusted research, professional education, and member expertise, the CAS advances practical climate knowledge for the insurance industry.
Climate Risk in Practice is our featured initiative, bringing together research, articles, podcasts, and educational resources that demonstrate how CAS members are helping insurers understand, quantify, and respond to today's evolving climate risks.
Upcoming Webinar: Climate Risk in Practice
September 30, 2026 | 12:00 PM EDT
Explore how climate risk is influencing real-world insurance operations, from catastrophe modeling and pricing to capital strategy and risk transfer.
Explore how climate risk is influencing real-world insurance operations, from catastrophe modeling and pricing to capital strategy and risk transfer.
Free webinar, available to all
Hear how industry experts are navigating climate risk across modeling, insurance, and reinsurance
Explore how climate insights can be translated into operational decisions
Examine implications for catastrophe modeling, pricing, underwriting, and risk transfer
Featured Climate Research
Developing Rates for the Severe Convective Storm Peril in Property Insurance
Learn how actuaries can develop more accurate pricing approaches for one of the fastest-growing catastrophe risks affecting property insurers.
Climate, Spatial Dependence, and Flood Risk: A U.S. Case Study
Explore how spatial dependence influences flood losses and why understanding geographic relationships can improve catastrophe modeling.
A Quantitative Approach to Evaluate Climate Change Impact on Typhoon Risk with a Case Study in the Western North Pacific Basin
Examine how climate change may influence future typhoon activity and what those changes could mean for insured losses in the Western North Pacific.
Catastrophe Models for Wildfire Mitigation: Quantifying Credits and Benefits to Homeowners and Communities
Discover how catastrophe models can quantify the value of wildfire mitigation efforts and support more informed decisions for insurers, homeowners, and communities.
Track Climate Trends with the Actuaries Climate Index®
Explore observed changes in extreme weather and sea levels across the United States and Canada with the Actuaries Climate Index® (ACI), an objective measure of climate trends updated quarterly.
Practical Climate Insights
North American Catastrophes: Secondary Peril Events No Longer Secondary
Explore how secondary perils are reshaping catastrophe losses and why they require renewed attention from insurers and actuaries.
Herding Your Cats: Managing and Pricing Catastrophe Exposure
Learn how actuaries balance catastrophe exposure, uncertainty, and business objectives to support sound pricing and risk management decisions.
Prevention is Better than the Cure: Unlocking Investments in Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
Discover how proactive investments in mitigation and adaptation can strengthen resilience before catastrophe losses occur.
Modeling for Climate Change and Economic Stability
See how increasingly sophisticated catastrophe models help insurers understand evolving climate risk and support long-term economic resilience.
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