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Briefing: Current risk climate must not push global warming down insurers’ risk agenda

By 2025-05-15T10:00:00

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The UK government cannot always put its money where its mouth is, so politicians may lean on the insurance sector to support mitigating more extreme UK weather, dangling the carrot of lower cost claims

Climate change will undoubtedly be a key topic of conversation at this week’s Biba Conference (14 and 15 May 2025) in Manchester.

Independent, non-departmental public body the Climate Change Committee told the UK government at the end of last month (April 2025) that the country is quite simply unprepared to deal with the ramifications of a more extreme, fluctuating global climate.

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