Physical climate risk
Aquila’s troubles could break emerging markets risk
Confusion at the weather derivatives operations of energy giant Aquila is having a knock-on impact on the development of weather products in emerging markets around the world. Paul Lyon reports
Canada opens new pastures
Alberta’s Agricultural Financial Services Corp came to Aon with a special need to hedge precipitation risk, and Aon rose to the challenge. The transaction uses a unique index. Catherine Lacoursiere reports
European info squall to clear
At last, weather data is starting to become available in the European market, spurring growth in the weather derivatives market there. Paul Lyon reports
How Japan got it covered
The fast-growing Japanese weather derivatives market is unique in both its product diversity and the range of small business end-users it serves. But where are the big players? Rob Dwyer reports
Weathering the storm
Mandeep Sidhu, Kent Voss and Marty Makulski of Accenture discuss the climatic changes in the energy industry over the past year and how this may impact future trends
Modelling weather-sensitive electrical loads
Here Véronique Bugnion, Aram Sogomonian and Glen Swindle introduce a new methodology for forecasting and jointly simulating temperature and electrical load
Weather risk solutions
The weather risk management industry is showing encouraging development around the world. Element Re outlines its strategy for keeping up with the growing needs of the market-place