Insurance and risk transfer

A WRI analysis found that adaptation and resilience investments can unlock broad economic, social and environmental benefits that go far beyond simply avoiding losses, even when an extreme event doesn’t occur.

At Swiss Re Public Sector Solutions, we believe the timing is right to invest more boldly in the concept of Insurance Linked Loans (ILL), a risk-transfer innovation that can benefit all parties aiming to strengthen sovereign disaster resilience.

For the world’s poorest people, climate change does not announce itself in parts per million. It arrives as a ruined harvest, a flooded shopfront, or lost learning as children are kept out of school.

This report assesses Armenia’s existing DRR financing mechanisms and challenges, recommends structural reforms, and applies a structured methodology to identify and prioritize DRR investment needs.

The paper aims to aid understanding of barriers to insurability and what it takes to make a risk insurable. It calls for urgent, coordinated action across governments, regulators, insurers and partners to increase insurability and resilience-building.

This study finds that most risk models and data are for wildfires, but Wildland-Urban (WU) fires are different because vulnerabilities propagate and compound losses.

Over two decades, Colombia has steadily strengthened its disaster risk management (DRM) system—linking policy reform, institutional capacity, and financial preparedness to better manage shocks.

How WFP works across borders to protect improve food security of communities in the region known as ‘the lungs of the earth’.