cover image: Physical Climate Risk Divergence: PCRAM for investors - November 2024

Physical Climate Risk Divergence: PCRAM for investors - November 2024

15 Nov 2024

The PCRAM is made available for information only and with the understanding and expectation that each user will, with due care and diligence, conduct its own investigations and evaluations, and seek its own professional advice, in considering investments’ financial performance, strategies, prospects or risks, and the suitability of any investment therein for purchase, holding or sale within their. [...] Asset operations and management: The dynamic nature of PCR means that it should be considered during the operational phase of assets and considered in the operating expenses (OPEX) and capital expenditure (CAPEX) plan. [...] To reflect PCRAM and its anticipated improvements (multi-hazard function, insurability function and systems benefits), the three terms of the PCR equation could be refined from current practice to seek out the investment opportunity: PCRAM step 1: Assessing baseline uncertainty PCRAM steps 2 and 3: Quantifying vulnerability and resilience building PCRAM step 4: Identifying optimum thresholds to re. [...] Furthermore, given the time horizon distinctions for real estate compared to infrastructure assets outlined earlier in the paper, it is worth considering the question of whether the high risks possibly be more manageable in the long term, assuming CAPEX is spent? If they are, then the shorter-term time horizon of the real estate investment could mean the risk remains material. [...] 20 In 2023, for the first time in the Interconnected Disaster Risks report, the UN classified an economic area – the un-insurability of homes and property – at the same level of systemic risk as the extinction of species.

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