In December, delegations from 192 countries will hold two weeks of talks in Copenhagen aimed at establishing a new global treaty on climate change. Six months after the publication of its third major report on climate change and insurance, ‘Coping with Climate Change: Risks and opportunities...

This thinkpiece is the first in a series of several articles on the subject of climate change to be published in 2009. This summarises a detailed report published on 23 February by the CII edited by shared Nobel Prize winner Andrew Dlugolecki, entitled Coping with Climate Change: Risks and...