Workshop on insurance and risk assessment in the context of climate change and extreme weather events
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.
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