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Asia Pacific insurers warn climate shocks are becoming a systemic financial threat

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Ecosystem Impact

The intensification of climate shocks in the Asia-Pacific region threatens to degrade local biodiversity and natural carbon sinks as more frequent extreme weather events cause significant ecological disruption and habitat loss.

Systemic Reality

Climate change is evolving into a systemic financial threat that risks destabilizing broader market structures beyond individual insurer balance sheets, necessitating a shift in global policy frameworks and risk assessment models to maintain financial stability.

Insurance companies increasingly worry that escalating climate extremes could destabilise financial systems, not their balance sheets – an anxiety felt acutely in Asia Pacific, a MSCI study finds.