Using the adaptive cycle in climate-risk insurance to design resilient futures

R. Cremades*, S. Surminski, M. Máñez Costa, P. Hudson, P. Shrivastava, J. Gascoigne

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Abstract

Assessing the dynamics of resilience could help insurers and governments reduce the costs of climate-risk insurance schemes and secure future insurability in the face of an increase in extreme hydro-meteorological events related to climate change.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4-7
Number of pages4
JournalNature Climate Change
Volume8
Issue number1
Early online date2 Jan 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2018

Funding

R.J.M., C.H. and M.R.A. would like to acknowledge financial support through the Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative. We would like to acknowledge valuable comments and feedback from E. Adlen and R. Rafaty. We are grateful to the participants of two workshops held in mid-2015, the first chaired by M. Smith at the Oxford Martin School and the second by D. Schrag at Harvard University’s Centre for the Environment, which helped inform much of our thinking when developing an early version of these principles.

FundersFunder number
Seventh Framework Programme308438

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 13 - Climate Action
      SDG 13 Climate Action

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