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10 October 2016
27 September 2016
This presentation examines global climate pacts like the Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It looks at climate change and disaster risk reduction in the context of the sustainable development goals. Lastly, it underscores the importance of an integrated…
6 September 2016
The G7 Climate Risk Insurance Inititative—InsuResilience—aims to increase by up to 400 million the number of poor and vulnerable people who have access to direct or indirect insurance coverage by 2020. To reach this objective, the initiative will boost indirect insurance while developing and…
6 September 2016
Forum participants enumerated the limitations of existing financial instruments, which include, among others, a lack of accessible and adequate data and a common understanding about how to characterize loss and damage. Contingency funds are also mostly loan-based. To address these limitations, they…
6 September 2016
Forum participants identified the major stakeholders of financial instruments that address loss and damage. They also discussed strategies and options that can be taken to create an enabling environment for financial instruments.
6 September 2016
What are the social aspects of the risks of loss and damage, including for particularly vulnerable countries, populations and the ecosystems they depend upon? In this presentation, Mark New of the African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town explains the social facets of…