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Displaying 15 of about 27 resultsOECD development co-operation working paper 17:
This report describes key features of risk financing and risk transfer, examines some of the current challenges at the contextual and programmatic levels as well as institutional challenges donors might face in engaging in risk financing and recommends a set of principles and policy approaches to guide fu…
The policy brief proposes an agenda for action that identifies political, legal, economic, and other possible ways of addressing the predicament of the SIDS. It focuses on climate change related challenges that are most urgent for SIDS in the context of security and global justice. As part of the challenges and possible responses for adaptation and deve…
This document presents the FM Global Resilience Index as the first data-driven tool and repository that ranks the business resilience of 130 countries. It is designed to help executives evaluate and manage supply chain risk. Nine key drivers of supply chain risk are grouped into three categories: (i) economic; (ii) risk quality, including exposure to na…
This report evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during 2013 and highlights that global natural catastrophic activity caused the lowest total insured losses since 2009 and 22 percent below the 10-year average of USD58 billion. Insights include a recap of 2013's top natural catastrophe events, background information…
Managing risk through catastrophe insurance:
This paper offers an in-depth look at how insurance helps to lower the economic and fiscal costs of natural disasters. It demonstrates that insurance is an efficient and effective way to mitigate these impacts. The research presented here can help policy-makers, businesses and homeowners plan for disaster ri…
This paper overviews the case studies evaluating economics of climate adaptation (ECA) and ranging from assessments of tropical cyclone and storm surge risk in New York to drought risk in India and flash flood risk in Guyana. The ECA methodology is a guide that addresses the questions of climate-related losses and preventive measures to avert these loss…
Southasiadisasters.net special issue no. 106, March 2014:
This issue explores the important role played by microinsurance in building up the resilience of communities vulnerable to addressing the impact of disasters and climate change.
The content includes: (i) EU’s Work in Phailin; (ii) MIA's Work on Climate Change and Microinsurance in India;…
This document reports on a survey of over 400 corporate insurance experts from 33 countries and highlights the increasing complexity of business risks, featuring business interruption and supply chain, natural catastrophes, and fire/explosion, as major risks. It also reviews a combination of new technological-, economic- and regulatory-related risks, po…
This publication address the threat posed by natural disasters, disruptive technologies, political turmoil, terrorist attacks, and environmental degradation to companies, cities and entire nations and the essential role played by global reinsurers in absorbing disaster shocks by providing predictable financial relief and strengthening societal resilienc…
This report provides a reassessment of natural hazards in the United States and discusses the progress and challenges in reducing losses from natural disasters. It presents public private partnership 2000 forums, including disaster risk management activities related to insurance sector, urban risks, California earthquake loss reduction plan, disaster re…
An official document formally adopted by UN Member States as the outcome of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, in which countries recognize the need to support and invest in these nations so they can achieve sustainable development.
The paragraphs 51 and 52 recognize the importance of disaster risk reduction and affir…
This paper investigates how the questions of compensation and prevention are linked, and how this can be supported or hampered by public policy. It analyzes this for flood insurance, where the EU has instigated a debate on what the role of the EU should be in the context of flood insurance and other disasters in Europe. The paper investigates if and how…
This report examines the economic consequences of delaying implementing policies to reduce the pace and ultimate magnitude of these changes; the findings emphasize the need for policy action today. It asserts that (i) immediate action substantially reduces the cost of achieving climate targets; (ii) Climate change stemming from delayed action creates la…
This paper introduces an insurance industry commitment in support of the process to develop the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction. It describes: (i) the insurance industry's involvement in managing disaster risk, whether it stems from natural, biological or technological hazards; (ii) the critical roles played by the insurance industry pla…
This report ranks the 330 largest insurance companies in the United States of America on what they are saying and doing to respond to escalating climate risks. The report found strong leadership among fewer than a dozen companies but generally poor responses among the vast majority.
This report summarizes responses from insurance companies to a survey…