Beyond Traffic-Light Risk Scores: Building Climate Risk Models That Actually Work | Joan Saladich (Part 1)

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The episode discusses the flaws in traditional climate risk data used for underwriting and explores a more sophisticated approach.

What if the climate risk data you're using to underwrite policies is fundamentally flawed? In this first of two-part episode of Making Risk Flow, host Jake Harding speaks with Joan Saladich, CEO and co-founder of Geoskop, about why traditional climate risk scores often fail insurers and what a more sophisticated approach looks like. Joan explains how deterministic ratings and traffic-light systems oversimplify complex climate realities, making them unsuitable for underwriting decisions. He ex...

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Host: Jake Harding

Guest: Joan Saladich

Topics covered

• climate risk
• insurance
• underwriting
• risk assessment
• data analysis

Keywords

• climate risk
• insurance
• underwriting
• risk scores
• data accuracy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Geoskop

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