Partnerships between insurance companies and climate scientists are a model for how academic science can provide value to business. These partnerships benefit both businesses and scientists, as well as the wider public.
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The Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) was founded by scientists at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research and has received significant support from that institution. RPI is currently supported by Mid-Ocean Re, CAT, Renaissance Re, Terra Nova Insurance, Center Re-Zurich, ACE, X.L. Insurance Co., General Re, Employers Re, American International group, Tillinghast Towers-Perrin and in the past by Chubb group and AON Corp. We thank all participants and sponsors of RPI. Our Web pages are at http://wrigley.usc.edu/ and http://www.bbsr.edu/
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Michaels, A., Close, A., Malmquist, D. et al. Climate science and insurance risk. Nature 389, 225–227 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/38378
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