How the worlds biggest bank is bracing for climate catastrophe.

JP Morgan chase recently published a comprehensive climate report which spelled out to its investors how they should be adapting to the coming storm and pointed out all the lucrative investment opportunities a warming planet presents (like melting sea ice & thawing permafrost opening up new trade routes and mining sites, and increasing temperatures providing an uplift to the air-conditioning market. Meanwhile the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, who are financial risk managers, published their own analysis with a very different outlook. This video compares and contrasts the two reports.

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Reference Links:

Al Gore June 2025 TED Talk on this exact subject (nice one Al!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztx0Bch3h9s

JP Morgan Chase - Introduction to Climate Intuition
https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm/cib/documents/Building_intuition_for_strategic_decision_making.pdf

Institute & Faculty of Actuaries - The Emperors New Climate Scenarios
https://actuaries.org.uk/media/qeydewmk/the-emperor-s-new-climate-scenarios_ifoa_23.pdf

Institute & Faculty of Actuaries - Climate Scorpion- The sting is in the Tail
https://actuaries.org.uk/media/g1qevrfa/climate-scorpion.pdf

Institute & Faculty of Actuaries - Planetary Solvency - Finding our balance with nature.
https://actuaries.org.uk/document-library/thought-leadership/thought-leadership-campaigns/climate-papers/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/

Banking on Climate Finance - Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2025
https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/BOCC_2025_FINAL2_WEB_spreads.pdf

Morgan Stanley advice to HVAC markets
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-banks-quietly-prepare-for-catastrophic-climate-change/

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