Climate Emergency – tipping the odds in our favour

In this briefing paper, prepared for COP27, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and Climate Crisis Advisory Group explore how to apply risk-management techniques to climate change. We also explore reasons for hope. We are neither climate doom-mongers nor climate appeasers. As a profession, we are long-term probabilistic thinkers and advisers who see it as part of our public duty to help humanity avoid the risk-management failure that climate breakdown would represent.