Use Case
Support insurance risk assessment with climate and ESG data
Insurance is a risk business. Understanding where risk sits, how it changes and where it concentrates is core to underwriting, pricing, portfolio management and long-term viability.
Climate and catastrophe risk are not new to insurers. What is new is the scale, complexity and regulatory expectation around climate-related data and reporting.
The NCED helps insurers assess, monitor and report on climate and ESG exposure across policyholder portfolios.
The Insurance Challenge
Insurers operate with large, diverse portfolios of commercial and personal policyholders. Understanding exposure across these populations requires data on:
The challenge is scale
An insurer may have tens of thousands of commercial policyholders. Each may have different locations, sectors, exposures and risk characteristics. Without a structured dataset, understanding portfolio risk becomes manual, inconsistent and difficult to govern.
Why This Matters
Climate and catastrophe risk can influence insurance portfolios in several ways:
Claims Exposure
Physical risk can affect claims frequency, severity and correlation.
Pricing Relevance
Understanding hazard exposure supports more accurate risk-based pricing.
Accumulation Risk
Concentration in regions or sectors exposed to similar hazards can create systemic portfolio risk.
Transition Pressure
Policyholders in high-transition sectors may face changing regulation, shifting demand or increasing costs.
Regulatory Reporting
Insurers are increasingly required to report on climate risk, emissions and scenario analysis.
Reinsurance and Capital
Reinsurers and capital markets increasingly expect evidence of climate risk understanding.
How the NCED Helps
The NCED provides climate, catastrophe, ESG and transition-risk data that can be linked to commercial policyholders at the entity level. This enables insurers to incorporate structured data into:
Integration Points
Underwriting
Underwriters can use NCED data to better understand the climate and ESG profile of new business and renewals. This may include:
- hazard exposure at trading locations
- transition risk at sector level
- ESG indicators where available
- industry classification and activity
Portfolio Monitoring
The NCED supports ongoing monitoring across commercial portfolios. This may include:
- portfolio-wide risk summaries
- concentration by region and sector
- tracking changes over time
- identifying portfolio-level accumulations
Claims Analysis
The NCED can support post-event claims analysis by linking policyholder profiles to climate and hazard data. This supports loss attribution, correlation analysis and scenario validation.
Scenario and Stress Testing
The NCED provides structured data that can feed into scenario analysis. By understanding where risk sits across geography, sector and hazard, insurers can model the impact of future climate scenarios on portfolio exposure.
Regulatory Reporting
The NCED supports climate disclosure requirements by providing evidence of how exposure has been assessed, where risk sits and how portfolios are changing. This is particularly relevant for insurers subject to prudential oversight or sustainability reporting mandates.
Practical Outputs
The NCED can support:
The Strategic Value
Insurance integration helps insurers move from climate awareness to applied portfolio intelligence.
It enables insurers to:
- understand exposure across commercial portfolios
- identify concentration by geography, sector and hazard
- enhance underwriting with consistent risk indicators
- support claims analysis with structured data
- strengthen reporting with evidence
- enable better customer conversations
- link physical risk and transition risk in a single view
NCED helps insurers understand climate and ESG exposure across commercial portfolios - supporting stronger underwriting, better portfolio management and more confident reporting.