Finance and insurance industry ("financial services") can play a key role in climate adaptation, by reducing and transferring risks. However, financial services are largely absent from developing countries with their highly vulnerable economies and livelihoods. The financial services sector...

This paper takes stock of current knowledge about the risks climate change poses to sustainable development and discusses issues associated with managing those risks. The author argues that a central driver of climate change risk is mainstream economic (development) models which aspire to...