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Trust, but Verify: Climate Risk Scores
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Trust, but Verify: Climate Risk Scores

Relevant links:
Carbon Plan Open Climate Risk

A Risk Professional’s Guide to Physical Risk Assessments
Climate Risk

Companies Don’t Always Agree

Climate Services: The Business of Physical Risk


(00:00) Chris Struggles to Define Climate Risk Scores, Arbitrary Scores

(13:30) Incentive Structures: Information Asymmetry and Product Quality, Comparison with Other Scoring Industries

(23:50) Practical Examples: Zillow Real Estate Scores

(29:00) Uncertainty and Verification

(35:00) Climate Opinion Scores

(41:00) Geocoding

(50:00) Parametric Insurance

Side Note:
Several people have noted that when I’ve been thinking about something for a while/get excited about something I just start yapping without setting any context. You can observe this phenomenon in the first half of this podcast, I’ll be working on that so future episodes should be easier to follow.

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