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Insurance & risk transfer

The process of formally or informally shifting the financial consequences of particular risks from one party to another, whereby a household, community, enterprise or State authority will obtain resources from the other party after a disaster occurs, in exchange for ongoing or compensatory social or financial benefits provided to that other party.

This theme covers aspects of disaster risk financing, catastrophe bonds, financial resilience, and micro-insurance.

Latest Insurance & risk transfer additions in the Knowledge Base

Flooded stores in Jianxi, China
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Is it time for China to embrace catastrophe insurance?

As disasters increase in frequency and severity, the need for such insurance is growing, but challenges persist in developing and implementing these products effectively in the Chinese market.
Dialogue Earth
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Race to Resilience in action: How insurance is protecting millions from climate risks in the Philippines, Uzbekistan, Togo, and Morocco

The InsuResilience Solutions Fund under the InsuResilience Global Partnership Vision 2025 is spearheading a series of innovative insurance projects across the world to protect millions of vulnerable people from climate-induced disasters.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Cover and source: Swiss Re Institute
Documents and publications

The future of excess mortality after COVID-19

Swiss Re Institute projects excess mortality in the US and UK over the next 10 years under different scenarios, by analysing excess mortality trends globally and disaggregating the underlying factors driving them.
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Glut of climate risk data prompts fear of US home insurance hike

Climate risk disclosure data is educating - and dividing - home-owning Americans.
Context
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Hawaii wildfires: Reflections on the first anniversary, new insights and innovations for the insurance sector

One year after the devastating wildfires in Hawaii, the scale and intensity of the wildfires not only underscored the vulnerability of the island’s communities especially on Maui but also laid bare the challenges and opportunities for the insurance sector
Moody's Investors Service
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Some New Zealand homes are becoming uninsurable because of natural disasters – but all may not be lost

After a series of disasters – from the Canterbury earthquakes to Cyclone Gabrielle – real doubt hangs over the insurance options available to some New Zealand homeowners.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Climate crisis helped drive payouts to seven-year high, say insurers

Last year, UK insurers paid out a record £573m in weather-related claims, £150m more than in 2022. The average weather-related payout was nearly £5,000 in 2023, compared with a little over £3,000 the year before.
Guardian, the (UK)
Two women dressed in the traditional Indian Saree are walking through the narrow streets of the blue city of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
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The novel structure behind a parametric solution for SEWA in South-East Asia

Following the May 2024 heat waves in India, insurance payouts for lost income were made to over 46,000 women in South-East Asia. This represented a relative novelty where insurance payouts and a direct cash assistance programme had been combined.
Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re)
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