At the General Assembly of the Geneva Association held 28-31 May 2008 in Hamilton, Bermuda, the CEOs of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance companies decided to launch a new research project on climate change and its economic impact on insurance (CC+I). This initiative reflects one of...

Extreme weather patterns are causing major damage on property and business and the question of who pays is becoming a serious issue. A law and economics point of view focuses on the problem that emitters of greenhouse gases externalize the true costs of their contribution to climate change...

Sustainability ; Climate Change ; What can the (re)insurance industry do? ; CC is also a societal choice...

There are indeed many unknowns: climate science deals in probability and risk, not in certainties. However, if we value the well being of our children and grandchildren, even small risk of catastrophic events merit an insurance-based precautionary approach...

Overview ; Current Insurance Cat Regulation ; AMIS Climate Change Group ; The Mexican Hydrometeorological Perils Endorsement ; Deficiencies in Building Codes...

IFC - an overview; IFC in Latin America; IFC and climate change (from risk to opportunity); IFC- why do we care?; Insurance Requirements? IFC's Approach; Risk modeling - the future; Climate-related Products...

Weather and climate are among the factors that determine the geographic range and incidence of several major causes of ill health, including morbidity and mortality due to temperature extremes, other extreme weather events...

The influence of mankind on the Earth in recent years has become so significant as to constitute a new geological era: The Anthropocene...

This presentation is dedicated to those entrepreneurs and decision makers, who strive or a better life quality for human beings, with a positive search of longer term guarantees to all kinds of lives, with quality emphasis on efficient, effective and equitable processes, for all present and...

Sustainable development in the face of climate change in LAC is as much threatened by the uncontrolled grwoth of the urban areas, and the growth of the urban areas, and the growth of urban poverty and precariousness, as by urban environmental degradation...