6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management - Towards Resilient Cities. 28 August - 01 September 2016 in Davos, Switzerland
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Use of Catastrophe Modelling Data to Help Earthquake Risk Assessment for Developers and Policy Makers, Alexandros GEORGIADIS
1. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Catastrophe modelling and disaster risk
assessment for developers and policy makers
Alexandros Georgiadis, Aon Benfield Impact Forecasting, UK
Chris Ewing, Aon Benfield Impact Forecasting, UK
Stuart Fraser, GFDRR Innovation Lab, US
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International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Agenda
• Natural Catastrophe Risk
• Catastrophe Modelling in insurance
• Catastrophe Modelling beyond insurance
3. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Agenda
• Natural Catastrophe Risk
• Catastrophe Modelling in insurance
• Catastrophe Modelling beyond insurance
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International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Catastrophe Modelling
• Tools that analyse the financial implications of natural catastrophes.
US HU
US EQ
EU WS
JP TY
JP EQEU EQ
EU FL
US FL
Source: Earth Institute of Columbia University
5. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Catastrophe Modelling
• Tools that analyse the financial implications of natural catastrophes.
Source: Earth Institute of Columbia University
6. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Agenda
• Natural Catastrophe Risk
• Catastrophe Modelling in insurance
• Catastrophe Modelling beyond insurance
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International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Anatomy of a Catastrophe Model
LOSS
Insured loss
calculation
Damage
Calculation
VULNERABILITY
HAZARD
Event Generation
Intensity Calculation
EXPOSURE
Asset Characterisation
Policy Conditions
Source: PERILS
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International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Cat Model in insurance
• Tools used to calculate:
– the impact (monetary loss)
– the probability (frequency) for
a set level of loss to occur.
• View of risk
• Benefits
– Portfolio optimization.
– Risk appetite and capital
management.
– Reinsurance purchase
decisions.
Quantify risk
in old & new
territories
Effective
accumulation
control
Reinsurance
cover design
New
insurance
products
Selective
underwriting
Understand
your
exposure
9. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
The (re)insurance market
Properties
Insurance
Reinsurance
• Risk appetite and capital management
• Reinsurance purchase decisions
• Portfolio optimization
• Portfolio optimization
Catastrophe Modelling
• Premium calculation
Catastrophe Modelling
10. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Agenda
• Natural Catastrophe Risk
• Catastrophe Modelling in insurance
• Catastrophe Modelling beyond insurance
11. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Challenge
• Many developing countries
– Limited hazard/exposure/vulnerability data and model coverage to
quantify risk and make risk-informed decisions.
– Lack established risk financing mechanisms – funding post-disaster
activities may be unplanned and not optimal
• Post-disaster costs impacting the national budget may cause:
– Liquidity gaps.
– Long-term government debt and increased poverty for families.
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International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Catastrophe Modelling beyond insurance
• Expand model coverage and data availability
• Impacts beyond monetary loss – i.e., government assets, infrastructure, poverty,
GDP growth, population affected...
• Integrated risk management using catastrophe models:
Open Data
Limited money /
resource to fund
data and modelling
Quantifying
Nat Cat Risk
What-if
scenarios &
Cost/Benefit
analysis
Project
Planning
Resilience
studies
poverty - disaster
synergy
Mitigation &
preparedness
Risk
assessment
Identify risk
hotspots
Focus efforts to
reduce risks
13. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Case Study: Using EQ hazard data for disaster risk reduction
• GFDRR integrated Impact
Forecasting EQ hazard data within
their Think Hazard! global multi-
hazard screening tool.
• ThinkHazard.org simplifies
hazard data into high, medium or
low classes (based on frequency
of damage occurring in that
location).
• Recommends first-step actions on
how to reduce risk and provides
links to relevant data / reports.
• Helps DRR professionals to plan
projects, and communities to
prepare.
PGA
14. 6th
International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016
‘Integrative Risk Management – Towards Resilient Cities‘ • 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2016 • Davos • Switzerland
www.grforum.org
Contacts
Alexandros Georgiadis
Impact Forecasting London
+44 (0)207 086 3297
alexandros.georgiadis@aonbenfield.com
Chris Ewing
Impact Forecasting London
+44 (0)207 522 8305
chris.ewing@aonbenfield.com
Stuart Fraser
GFDRR Innovation Lab
+44 (0)7455 048 044
sfraser@worldbank.org
Subject of this presentation is the link between NAT CAT Modelling, risk analysis and it’s applications
We will start (i) with CAT Modelling fundamentals, then (ii) look into the Insurance market and the role of CAT Modelling in Europe, US, etc, then we will look into potential uses beyond the established Insurance market.
Portrait of a dangerous planet: The risks are colour-coded, blue for flood/storm surge, orange for drought, green & Red for EQ!
Lack of use of catastrophe models and catastrophe risk data to help information disaster risk reduction professionals
Catastrophe modelling is otherwise known as risk modelling outside of the (re)insurance market. Uses of risk models are multiple:
The structure of a cat model can be used to assess risk outside of the insurance market. The components are the same, but perhaps don’t use the financial module (i.e., policy terms) for many analyses.
International organisations such as world bank / gfdrr use risk models to
identify population affected / government buildings damaged, in the same way as it can be used to assess the number of buildings affected/damaged in an insurance company’s portfolio.
Model for sovereign (government) level loans and transactions such as parametric insurance triggers – see CCRIF, for example.
1: Provision of model data openly is key to improving availability - not enough money/resource in development sector to pay for data to be used once and not be made available to multiple stakeholders. Need to drive efficiency in the effort by not duplicating data, and by sharing data and collaborating to improve data / model coverage
3: Structural vulnerability curves can be swapped for curves to relate intensity with death / injury to estimate population affected.
3: understand better how poverty is linked to disasters and what the impact of disaster might be on poverty, by determining the effect of events on peoples livelihoods (needs detailed understanding of household economic situations – work in progress)
4: Understand country’s risk hot spots, and impacts of urbanization / population growth by including scenarios of urban growth and population change. Also explore risk into the future, by changing the hazard parameters / model to include the effects of warmer climate on wind, rainfall, and sea levels. This is used in cost/benefit analysis of disaster risk reduction measures, to identify whether (e.g.) new flood protection, new land-use zoning, etc, are worth the investment in terms of the amount of money saved if a disaster occurred with them in place.
One example of collaboration between modeling in the insurance sector and development / international organizations. There is a lot of expertise and data in the private sector, which can benefit international development, if it was utilised in the right areas.
See RMS work on Risky Business http://www.rms.com/blog/2014/06/24/rms-and-risky-business-modeling-climate-change-risk/
AIR work on PCRAFI – risk on Pacific Islands. Plenty of examples, where private sector, or academic institutions are contracted to run risk model (essentially, cat models), to identify and better understand risk for disaster risk management, of which reinsurance is one component.