PAL announces Climate Risk Index (CRIX) data for August 2017 is now available. August CRIX is 1,185.36, up 0.4% on the previous month. The index is down 6.7% on the same period last year, and it’s 1,273 all-time high in September 2016.
Published at the beginning of each month, the PAL Climate Risk Index (CRIX) provides a measure of the financial loss and damage arising from anthropogenic climate change. It utilises worldwide insurance loss data arising from extreme weather events (meteorological, hydrological, climatological). Dating back to January 1980, historical index values have been produced by the PALgamma catastrophe risk system and made available in this monthly report.
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