In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14 - 18, 2015). We review and discuss the agreed commitments and targets, as well as the...

In recent years, insurance against natural disasters has gained recognition as an important tool for climate risk management that could, if carefully implemented, help increase the resilience of those insured. In response, insurance solutions are increasingly tested and applied in many countries...

Back in the eighteenth century, the insurance industry in London incentivised widespread behaviour to mitigate fire risk by introducing the world’s first building fire codes in the form of fire marks, and then creating the world’s first organised fire services. Now 350 years later, the...