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Risk in Context Podcast: Catastrophe and Climate Resilience

Marsh’s Renata Elias, Bev Adams, and Rich Wall discuss how companies can become more to the effects of natural catastrophes and climate change.

Natural catastrophes can be costly and deadly. But in seeking to become more resilient, businesses must consider not only today’s catastrophes but also the long-term effects of climate change.

This episode of Marsh’s Risk in Context podcast features Marsh’s Renata Elias, Bev Adams, and Rich Wall on how companies can become more resilient to the effects of natural catastrophes and climate change.

Key takeaways

How businesses can protect against effects of natural catastrophes

Designing more resilient structures, implementing programs to safeguard employees, and other actions can help businesses protect against the effects of natural catastrophes while also enabling them to better respond to the long-term effects of climate change.

Risk professionals' role in addressing climate impacts

Risk professionals have an important role to play in addressing climate impacts and are well-positioned to do so given their familiarity with modeling, scenario testing, and other tools and techniques.

Focus on assessing risks to catastrophic perils

Businesses should focus on assessing their risk to catastrophic perils now while also considering how to add climate risk considerations to existing efforts.

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