Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 — Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, today launches its 2016 Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during the last 12 months to promote awareness and enhance resilience. Aon Benfield is the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc (NYSE:AON). The report reveals that there were 315 natural catastrophe events in 2016 that generated economic losses of USD210 billion.