Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of July 2020.

Description: The objective of this paper is to discuss the factors that affect and should be considered in the development of social discount rates, with a primary focus on social cost-benefit analyses of climate change-related strategies, programs, and investments involving mitigation and ex-ante adaption efforts.

Description: Climate change is occurring. As a result, insured and uninsured losses are increasing. Billion-dollar (CPI adjusted) disaster events have increased in each decade in which they have been tracked since 1980.

Description: This report examines weather conditions for daily maximum and minimum temperature (TMAX and TMIN), inland storm activity from wind, hail and tornadoes, record precipitation, tropical cyclone activity and the resultant flooding.

Description: A brief introduction to sustainability reporting for actuaries with no previous familiarity with it. The article focuses on UK insurance companies and gives a short overview of the reporting journey that UK insurance companies have been on, with the hope of smoothing the journey for others. The article briefly describes the development and adoption of the framework for sustainability reporting, and discusses some of the practical points and challenges encountered.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Program is pleased to release the following essay exploring the Actuarial Role in addressing Severe Thunderstorm Risks.

Description: Excel spreadsheet for Extracting Subsets of Data from GHCN Daily Dataset.

Description: Heavy Precipitation in the U.S. Southeast, and Dry Conditions in California This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of February 2020.

Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of May 2020.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide-ranging impact in areas of interest to practicing actuaries. Correlations exist between the pandemic and many topics varying across a range of practice areas. The SOA Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program Steering Committee has sponsored these visualizations exploring the correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic and a theme of choice of the individual contributing authors.