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Blog#1 - Sustainability and Climate Change – an introduction to the Society’s Committee Climate change has wide reaching implications for the work done by actuaries, due to its impact on the economy, the risks from natural disasters, the impact on human …

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Excess Mortality - Blog #12 Different approaches to measuring excess mortality As we pass the one-year anniversary since the first deaths relating to Covid-19 in Ireland we have all sadly become accustomed to hearing the daily updates on the latest case …

Excess mortality - Blog post #13 The data suggests that we have returned to “normal” levels of deaths in Ireland but we saw the same indicators last summer only to be followed by the second/third wave. It is important that we learn from this experience …

Excess mortality - Blog post #14 Now that we’re into the second year of our battle with COVID-19, we thought it would be interesting to revisit the question of the presence of any gender bias in the deaths caused by the virus in Ireland. During the first …

Blog#3 - The Keeling Curve – an Iconic Climate Change Graph Introduction According to science historian Spencer Weart, the Keeling Curve is the “central icon of the greenhouse effect” (Weart, 2008). It is named after Charles David Keeling who, as a …