At the UN World Food Summit in Rome in 1996 an ambitious goal was formulated, namely to cut in half the number of malnourished people in 1995 by 2015. It has now become clear that this objective is no longer within reach. In fact, the opposite is happening. The number of malnourished people is...

Die Agrar- und Ernährungsorganisation der Vereinten Nationen (FAO) hat jüngst die Öffentlichkeit alarmiert, weil die Reduzierung des auf dem Welternährungsgipfel 1996 formu-lierten ambitiösen Ziels, die Anzahl der mangelernährten Menschen auf der Welt zu halbieren, in sehr weite Ferne...

Ökologie und Klimaschutz sind in aller Munde. Die politischen Parteien in Deutschland und anderswo sind sich weitgehend einig. Die Marktwirtschaft soll „ökologisch“ sein. Für Ökonomen ist dies Problem zumindest theoretisch ziemlich trivial. Die Emission von Klimagasen ist eine negative...

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...