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Insurance & Risk Transfer
Financial mechanisms formulated to reduce vulnerability to disasters by employing structured instruments such as insurance policies and catastrophe bonds which spread risks in exchange for a premium.
Climate leaves corporate Australia snoozing - Report
30 Apr 2013, Climate News Network
'One of the key legal findings from the research is that corporations need to identify their climate-related risk, and, once quantified, ensure that such risk forms an integral part of their environmental risk management process', says Mark Baker-Jones, one of the report’s authors...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.1 [PDF, 104Kb]Disaster risk reduction is an integral objective of environment related policies and plans, including for land use natural resource management and adaptation to climate change
- Indicator 4.2 [PDF, 102Kb]Social development policies and plans are being implemented to reduce the vulnerability of populations most at risk
- Indicator 5.3 [PDF, 86Kb]Financial reserves and contingency mechanisms are in place to support effective response and recovery when required.
- 22nd annual conference of the Society for Risk Analysis - Europe17-19 Jun 2013, Norway (Trondheim)
- 3rd annual Infoline forum: Managing catastrophe risk18-19 Jun 2013, United Kingdom (London)
- Climate change adaptation strategy training course24-28 Jun 2013, Singapore
- Risk in modern world: local, regional and global perspectivesUAM, Poland (Poznan)
- Public AdministrationUniv North Texas, Denton, Texas.
- Environmental Science (Disaster and Risk Management)Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Climate change adaptation in the boardroom2013, NCCARF
The year of recurring disasters: a review of natural disasters in 20122013, Brookings Inst, the
External Online Resources
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- China Risk Net - 中国风险网
- Climate and Disaster Governance (CDG)
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Institute for Business and Home Safety: disaster safety portal
- ProVention Consortium: risk transfer & private sector investment
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