Insurance & risk transfer

World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Technical Committee Session C:

In the first part of this document, four authors give presentations on the characteristics of disasters in metropolitan areas; the relation between environmental degradation

Un point de vu, publié dans le journal L'Humanité, questionnant le rôle de l'assurance dans la réduction des risques liés aux catastrophes et comme outil d’adaptation au monde de demain...

'Around 30 percent of the losses from catastrophes in developed countries are covered by insurers, while the percentage is lower than 5 percent in China,' said Wei Yingning, vice-chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission...

Disaster risk reduction experts welcome an insurance scheme proposed by Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency and call for its accessibility to low-income Nigerians...

Un primer préstamo de 19 millones fue aprobado el miércoles por el directorio del BID, para invertir en un programa para prevención, mitigación y respuesta ante emergencias, informó el comunicado...

This paper is an initial attempt to consider the role in adaptation of insurance and related risk sharing and risk transfer methods, in the context of a comprehensive approach to risk reduction and risk management. It is the result of informal

OECD reviews of risk management policies:

This report looks at Japan’s policies in the areas of monitoring, preparing for and responding to floods and earthquakes, seeking out and identifying good practices and areas where improvements could be made. The

Policy issues in insurance no. 12:

This book contains three reports focusing on different institutional approaches to the financial management of large-scale catastrophes in selected OECD and non-OECD countries, the role of risk mitigation and insurance