Workshop on insurance-related actions to address the specific needs and concerns of developing country Parties arising from the adverse effects of climate change and from the impact of the implementation of response measures
14-15 May 2003
Bonn, Germany
Background
The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 5/CP.7, requested the secretariat to organize a workshop on
insurance-related actions to address the specific needs and concerns of developing country Parties arising from the
adverse effects of climate change and from the impact of the implementation of response measures.
Discussions and the exchange of information at the workshop covered the following main issues: Challenges for
managing risk arising from the adverse effects of climate change and the impact of the implementation of response
measures; approaches to risk management for the adverse effects of climate change and the impact of the
implementation of response measures; limitations and problems with existing data; national and international
initiatives as possible hedging mechanisms against potential economic losses.
Background papers
- Insurance-related actions to address the specific needs and concerns of developing country Parties arising from
the adverse effects of climate change and from the impact of the implementation of response measures by Mr. Axel
Michaelowa (
Background paper)
- Insurance-related actions and risk assessment in the context of the UNFCCC by Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, M.J.
Mace and Roda Verheyen ( Background paper)
Presentations
Insurance-related actions in the context of the adverse effects of climate change
|
Presenter |
Party/ Organization |
Subject |
| Ms. Joanne Bayer | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
Overview of
insurance-related actions in the context of the adverse effects of climate change (186 kB)
|
| Mr. Paul Clements Hunt | UNEP Finance Initiatives |
Forging
innovative public-private insurance mechanisms to address climate-related losses - What is needed? (1241
kB)
|
| Mr. John Harding | Secretariat of the Intenational Strategy for Disaster Reduction |
Linking
disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (328 kB)
|
| Mr. David Etkin | Environment Canada |
The Canadian
Disaster Experience: Driving Forces (876 kB)
|
| Mr. David Crichton | Middlesex University and University College London |
Risk management
best practices (126 kB)
|
Insurance-related actions in the context of the impact of response measures
|
Presenter |
Party/ Organization |
Subject |
| Mr. Axel Michaelowa | Hamburg Institute of International Economics |
Overview of
insurance-related actions in the context of the impact of response measures (160 kB)
|
| Mr. Ugo Fasano | International Monetary Fund |
Fiscal policy
in oil exporting countries and the role of oil saving and stabilization funds (107 kB)
|
|
Mr. Kjersti Flåthen |
Norwegian Ministry of Finance |
National
initiatives to hedge against potential loss of oil revenues: The Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund (310
kB)
|
| Mr. Axel Michaelowa | Hamburg Institute of International Economics |
Capacity-building needs for risk assessment in the context of losses arising from the impact of the
implementation of response measures (91 kB)
|