Insurance and risk transfer

This report examines how Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance policies and programmes in Madagascar integrate Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, and assesses whether existing frameworks effectively address differentiated vulnerabilities.

Auckland Law School academic Rohan Havelock is investigating how New Zealand’s earthquake insurance stacks up against Japan’s.

This article examines how insurance-backed debt mechanisms can unlock climate finance while strengthening countries’ resilience to climate shocks.

Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates.

This initiative showcases the feasibility of using existing social protection systems to deliver anticipatory action, e.g. by delivering early warning information and anticipatory cash, to address impacts of potential shocks like heatwaves.

Over the past decade, the Gambian government has taken important steps to prepare financially for shocks, including becoming one of the first countries to join the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and one of the few that have consistently purchased insurance.

Recent disasters raise an urgent question: how prepared is India to protect both its economy and its people from disasters caused by natural hazards?

Researchers have identified two urgent challenges the United States faces in adapting to climate change: a potential disaster insurance crisis and the lack of comprehensive relocation policies for communities facing chronic flooding.