Ce texte porte sur la question de la réversibilité à long terme des émissions de CO2. Il donne un exemple de technologies de capture directe à partir de l'air, qui permet de borner le coût marginal de réduction du CO2 dans toute l'économie. Il exploré les aspects thermodynamiques de la...

The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility, with no meaningful binding agreement in sight, as the global climate regime and...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing our planet in the foreseeable future anddespite the urgency of the situation global GHG emissions are still increasing. In this context,and since future climate changes appear now unavoidable to some extent, adaptation measureshave recently...

Climate change has developed into a key concern of a globalised world, with huge attentionin popular and media discourses and with consequences in virtually all fields ofscience and politics. As a cross-cutting issue, climate change is connecting distant andsometimes highly controversial fields....

Die steigende Nachfrage nach Energie, gleichzeitig immer knapper werdende fossile Ressourcen und der fortschreitende Klimawandel führen dazu, dass auf europäischer und nationaler Ebene politische Zielsetzungen zur Reduktion des CO2-Ausstoßes sowie zur Erhöhung des Anteils erneuerbarer...

With only weeks to go untilthe United Nations climate change conferencein Copenhagen, the world is looking for itsleaders to strike a deal that will be farreachingenough to curb catastrophic climatechange from occurring. For the insuranceindustry this agreement is about more thanpreparing for a...

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...

In the midst of global recession it is tempting for stakeholders especially policymakers to diminish the importance of climate change. Indeed this is a challenge confronting many insurers, and the importance of staying the course cannot be overestimated. ClimateWise is an insurance industry...

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...

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...