ClimateWise launches Compendium of disaster risk transfer initiatives in the developing world

Today Dr. David Bresch, Head of Sustainability and Emerging Risk Management at Swiss Re and Dr.Swenja Surminski,  Senior Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics spoke about how strategic investments in risk reduction and risk transfer can facilitate adaptation and lower the long term costs of adaptation.

They were speaking at a side event on insurance and climate risk adaptation at the climate change negotiations in Durban. The event hosted by ClimateWise in partnership with Santam and UNEP FI was an opportunity to launch the outputs of the ClimateWise Collaboration on adaptation in the developing world.

ClimateWise members worked with researchers at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics to deepen understanding about the key components that would allow public-private schemes to be both commercially viable and deliver physical risk reduction outcomes. A compendium of over 100 existing schemes has been brought together and analysed to inform the design and development of future disaster risk reduction schemes.

Click here to access the Compendium and analysis