Climate Risk
Trend: Holding · Category: Environment · Region: Global · Confidence: Medium
Why we're watching
Climate-related risks are increasingly affecting insurance costs, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, and government spending. The issues revolve around how climate-related events (not necessarily normal weather patterns and trends) alter economic costs and public policy.
Next key trigger
Major hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, flooding, insurance market changes, climate legislation, or large resilience and infrastructure investments.
Latest signals
- 2026-07-15 — The Science of Extreme Event Attribution Why it matters: New technology advances have allowed scientists to more closely associate specific weather events with climate changes. This report could be used to steer policy debates based on more recent events.