An Integrated Approach to Managing Extreme Events and Climate Risks

22 Sep 2016

This report provides insights about the causes and effects of mounting social and economic risks, analyses the obstacles to fully capturing the insurance industry’s potential and makes concrete recommendations on how to overcome some of these hurdles. It includes:

Insights about causes and effects of the rising economic risks resulting from extreme events and climate change and the growing protection gap
Components of an integrated approach to disaster and climate risk management, synthesis of the international policy momentum for harnessing insurance, and the landscape of stakeholders and related initiatives
An analysis of challenges and gaps with investing in preventive and risk transfer measures and the potential role of (re)insurance
Four recommendations for expanding the footprint of insurance within the integrated disaster and climate risk management framework

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An Integrated Approach to Managing Extreme Events and Climate Risks

This report provides insights about the causes and effects of mounting social and economic risks, analyses the obstacles to fully capturing the insurance industry’s potential and makes concrete recommendations on how to overcome some of these hurdles. It includes:

Insights about causes and effects of the rising economic risks resulting from extreme events and climate change and the growing protection gap

Components of an integrated approach to disaster and climate risk management, synthesis of the international policy momentum for harnessing insurance, and the landscape of stakeholders and related initiatives

An analysis of challenges and gaps with investing in preventive and risk transfer measures and the potential role of (re)insurance

Four recommendations for expanding the footprint of insurance within the integrated disaster and climate risk management framework

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An Integrated Approach to Managing Extreme Events and Climate Risks

This report provides insights about the causes and effects of mounting social and economic risks, analyses the obstacles to fully capturing the insurance industry’s potential and makes concrete recommendations on how to overcome some of these hurdles. It includes:

Insights about causes and effects of the rising economic risks resulting from extreme events and climate change and the growing protection gap

Components of an integrated approach to disaster and climate risk management, synthesis of the international policy momentum for harnessing insurance, and the landscape of stakeholders and related initiatives

An analysis of challenges and gaps with investing in preventive and risk transfer measures and the potential role of (re)insurance

Four recommendations for expanding the footprint of insurance within the integrated disaster and climate risk management framework

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Summary

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