Insurance for Climate Adaptation: Opportunities and Limitations

Climate change jeopardizes socioeconomic stability, and sets back development efforts. The increasing frequency and severity of climate-change-driven disasters threaten lives and livelihoods, food security, water supply, property security, and economic prosperity across the globe.

Adaptation is vital to make society resilient to the impacts of climate change. This paper is the work of six authors led by Professor Paula Jarzabkowski, and contributes to a series of background papers commissioned by the Global Commission on Adaptation to inform its 2019 flagship report.

Citation: Jarzabkowski, P., K. Chalkias, D. Clarke, E. Iyahen, D. Stadtmueller & A. Zwick. 2019. “Insurance for climate adaptation: Opportunities and limitations.” Rotterdam and Washington, DC.

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