Insurance and risk transfer

Mutual insurer MAIF (Mutuelle assurance des Instituteurs de France) is strengthening its climate risk modeling capabilities with access to a comprehensive suite of Moody's high-definition risk models.

Much of the world lacks earthquake insurance, but when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation was protected.

To enhance the Dominican Republic’s resilience to climate-related events, the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) is supporting a partnership between the country’s social protection program Supérate, along with an international consortium.

For women farmers in rural India, the effects of climate change are compounded by limited access to finance, smaller plots and fewer land rights. Parametric insurance products can offer better protection.

Yokahu, a leading innovator in parametric insurance, today announced the launch of cat-risk.com, the first independent, many-to-many parametric exchange for the London re/insurance market.

Two decades after one of the most powerful earthquakes in history devastated SE Asia, this article examines how new technologies, research and global co-ordination can help increase resilience to future tsunamis.

This policy note outlines a structured approach to mobilizing public-private solutions that can leverage insurance markets, risk sharing mechanisms, and development partnerships.

Samoa Surety Insurance and the United Nations will unveil a groundbreaking bundled insurance product this Friday designed to safeguard low-income households in Samoa from the financial impacts of extreme climate events and other risks.