Overwhelming risk: rethinking flood insurance in a world of rising seas

This report analyzes the socioeconomic and climate-related trends resulting in increasingly unmanageable risks, such as rising seas and flooding from storm surge, that are driving increased property damage and loss along North Atlantic coasts. It asks the following questions: How can we better prepare for, respond to, and recover from such damaging events? Why are coastal communities increasingly at risk? It finally calls on urgent actions to help build the resilience of coastal communities, including insurance reform, while also investing in measures to slow global warming and sea level rise and prepare for their impacts.