November 2011 – Last Friday the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) approved a new report on ‘Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters for Climate Change Adaptation’. This is compelling reading both for those interested in climate change science, and for those working everyday to protect future economic and social activity.
An opinion piece by John Coomber, ClimateWise Chairman and former CEO of Swiss Re. Insurers can help to forge and promote solutions by using our industry’s core expertise to better understand and communicate climate risks and to manage those risks down to an acceptable level.
