Sara Kane is the co-leader of the Power and Renewables Practice at CAC Specialty, an integrated specialty insurance brokerage business. She has focused on assessing, pricing, and insuring against climate risk for more than a decade. In this episode, Sara and Chad Reed discuss the impact of the increasing number and severity of catastrophic weather events on renewable energy projects as well as the sobering findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent Sixth Assessment Report, the promise of professional career growth from crisis situations, the difference gender diversity makes in the workplace, and much more.

Links:

Sara Kane LinkedIn

CAC Specialty Natural Resources Practice Group

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (August 2021)

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2021)

Insurance Insider: Maturing renewable energy market balances growth with sustainable pricing (August 2021)

Episode recorded August 17, 2021

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