Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Putting a premium on net zero
Climate change | Sustainability | Innovation
November 16, 2022 – As we approach an inflection point in the net-zero transition, insurance carriers must transform to stay relevant. Technology is a crucial decarbonization lever, say McKinsey senior partners Kia Javanmardian, Sylvain Johansson, and coauthors. According to their estimates, annual global capital expenditures in the top climate technologies could account for more than $800 billion by 2030, corresponding to roughly $10 billion to $15 billion in insurance premiums on capital expenditures alone.
To read the article, see “Capturing the climate opportunity in insurance,” September 14, 2022.
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Climate-technology opportunity chart.
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The chart is laid out as a growth-opportunity view that connects the scale of decarbonization technologies to what insurers can underwrite, insure, or support. Reader starts with the total climate-tech capital requirement and then reads that number as an insurance opportunity.
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It compares the growth of top decarbonization technologies and renewables with the opportunity those investments create for insurers.
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The core measure is annual global capital expenditure in dollars, paired with the implied premium and underwriting opportunity for insurance carriers.
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The main internal pieces are the climate-technology categories or aggregate climate-tech bucket and the financial scale markers attached to them. The structure is designed to turn decarbonization spending into an adjacent insurance-market view.
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The page shows that net zero is not only a risk-management challenge for insurers but also a growth market. The sheer scale of capital flowing into climate technologies makes the insurance opportunity look large enough to matter strategically.
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The strongest number is that annual global capital expenditures in the top climate technologies could exceed 800 billion dollars by 2030. That scale anchors the opportunity the page describes for insurers.
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