Climate change

International: Stormy weather

The extent to which insurance can and should be used to help manage climate risk has long been debated, and as leaders met in Warsaw for the United Nations convention on climate change last week, it was once again on the agenda.

UN warns on climate change after warm 2012

The World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations agency, has said that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest - at ninth place - on record despite the cooling influence of La Niña.

Climate change: Insuring the future

Climate change is a global issue of huge importance to the safety and security of future generations and the environment. How can insurers play their part? Sam Barrett explains.

Weathering the growing subsidence risk

Subsidence is increasingly frequent and research shows that, with climates getting hotter, this is only going to continue. Edmund Tirbutt looks at how the market covers subsidence and whether it will continue to do so.

Flood brick entrepreneurs win Defra funding

The inventors of a flood brick designed to replace sandbags and defend homes from flooding have been awarded more than £44 000 by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Asia View from the Top: Getting flood modelling right

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2007 that especially heavily populated mega-delta regions in south, east and south-east Asia will be at greatest risk owing to increased flooding from the sea and, in some mega-deltas, flooding…

Making flood prevention cost effective

Flooding now affects more people than any other natural catastrophe. Jens Mehlhorn explains how tried and tested methodologies for determining the cost effectiveness of measures show that prevention is better than cure.

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