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Workshop on insurance and risk assessment in the context of climate change and extreme weather
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12-13 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 and risk assessment in the context of climate change and extreme weather events.
Discussions and the exchange of information at the workshop covered the following main issues: Overview of
insurance and risk assessment in the context of climate change and extreme weather events; the perspectives
on risk assessment methodologies provided by the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC; Insurance industry
perspectives; National and international approaches to managing and insuring against natural disaster
risks; Public–private partnerships; and insurance and adaptation/maladaptation to climate change.
Report of the
workshop
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)
Agenda
List of
Participants
Presentations
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