Tropical Cyclones, Displacement, and Policy: Advancing Climate Risk Assessments

The Institut des actuaires is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Simona Meiler, winner of the 2024 SCOR Actuarial Prize in Switzerland for her PhD thesis “Tropical Cyclones, Displacement, and Policy: Advancing Climate Risk Assessments”.

This presentation will take place on Wednesday April 2nd at 6 pm.

You can register HERE.

Attending this conference will allow you to add 6 points to your Continuing Professional Development score.

Abstract :

Extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones, heatwaves, and floods pose imminent threats to environmental and social systems. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of many such events, amplifying their potential impacts on society from direct economic losses to metrics like human displacement. Understanding and quantifying these climate-related risks is essential for building societal resilience. However, assessing these risks involves significant challenges, from managing diverse sources of uncertainty in risk models to addressing the complex interplay of social, environmental, and political factors.

This talk will explore three areas of my research: quantifying uncertainty and sensitivity in tropical cyclone risk assessments, developing a climate risk modeling approach to human displacement, and bridging social and natural sciences to examine how subjective attribution of extreme weather influences climate policy support.