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Carbon & Climate
Rethinking flood protection through a ‘no-regret’ lens
Governments in our region and beyond must plan today for tomorrow's floods, in a warming world. Regret can be minimised, if not eliminated.
Carbon & Climate
Will the US climate war with Canada become global?
For the first time, a great power has moved to price transboundary climate-driven harms–massive wildfires–and extract compensation unilaterally. What was previously a development, insurance, or emissions-accounting issue is now a security and trade dispute between two G7 economies, setting a precedent that others may try to follow.
Carbon & Climate
How insurance can transform our resilience to climate shocks
From Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean to floods in Southeast Asia, insurance is an underused tool for adaptation to climate extremes.
The rapid uptake of alternative fuels in shipping is outpacing international liability regimes – leaving gaps in protection against spills and accidents.
All #insurance Opinion
25 August 2025
Policy & Finance
Climate finance is held back by rules from the financial crash
16 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Insurers must promote the blue economy
27 January 2025
Policy & Finance
The Fed is running scared of Trump
5 September 2024
Policy & Finance
Climate impacts are crippling insurance and Big Oil must pay up
29 January 2024
Food & Agriculture
Women bear the brunt of Asia's climate failures
24 October 2023
Policy & Finance
Who pays and how: the COP28 dilemma of debt and equity
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3 February 2020
Policy & Finance
Why the European Union's green taxonomy is risky business
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Policy & Finance
Financing the green transition
25 January 2019
Food & Agriculture
Bots on the ground: How tech can help us beat hunger
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Carbon & Climate
What does it mean to live with climate change?
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Policy & Finance
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