Swiss Re Risk Engineer Adi Mehta has won the 2021 Aon Scholarship for his essay on the topic of ‘2050 Climate Change: Industry Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities’.

‘You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no gods left and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.’ –  Pliny the Younger, Eruption of Vesuvius, 79.

The year is 2050. The Paris Agreement to limit the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels has failed.

The Glasgow Climate Summit is now recognised as having been our last chance to reach collective cohesive action on the single greatest existential threat of our species and indeed life on Earth.

Shanghai (population 26 million), Mumbai (20 million), Bangkok (8 million) and Alexandria (population 5 million) are underwater (Kulp & Strauss, 2019). So are Miami, Boston and New Jersey (Dobson, 2019).

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