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6 September 2016
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the insurance industry has been working with institutional investors in promoting risk modelling beyond insurance. The aim is to offer parametric risk transfer to organizations (e.g., NGOs, development banks, microfinance providers, municipalities…
6 September 2016
Poor households are more likely to be affected by disasters, and have been found to lose relatively more than non-poor people. Adaptive social protection programs can provide safety nets to poor households during disasters and other shocks. Learn from this presentation on how social protection can…
5 September 2016
How can social protection schemes help increase adaptive capacity, prevent and reduce risks, and enhance livelihoods? Forum participants provide answers based on their respective experiences.
5 September 2016
Can catastrophe and resilience bonds really help in reducing risks of climate loss and damage? Forum participants answer this main question by sharing the experiences of their own countries.
5 September 2016
Forum participants discussed lessons learned from case studies, including those from Senegal, Nicaragua, and the Philippines on the use of fiscal instruments for disaster risk management.
5 September 2016
Can social protection provide enough cushion against the risks of climate change? This presentation examines initiatives on climate insurance, and provides pointers that organizations can consider in rolling out projects on social protection against climate change losses.
5 September 2016
African Risk Capacity (ARC) is a specialised agency of the African Union that provides index-based drought insurance. It is working to offer cyclone and flood insurance soon. Through its unique structure, ARC bring together three critical elements to create a powerful value proposition for it…
5 September 2016
Africa is already experiencing significant consequences of climate change. Under all mitigation and adaptation scenarios, Africa will experience residual loss and damage in areas such as agriculture and food security. The Africa Adaptation Initiative is taking major steps in addressing this huge…
5 September 2016
The economic costs of disasters are rising. Governments can certainly reduce further loss through some risk transfer mechanisms.
5 September 2016
ADB's Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Bambang Susantono, delivers his keynote speech. He talks about the solutions required to build climate resilience and ADB's experience in addressing the risk of loss and damage in Asia and the Pacific.