Insuring Against Climate Change: The Emergence of Regional Catastrophe Risk Pools eBook

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This book provides one of the first systematic in-depth studies on regional catastrophe risk pools. It explores the various goals of these new financial instruments, illustrating how they function on a conceptual, technical and practical level, and reconstructs their political genesis. With climate-related disasters increasing in frequency and severity, Insuring Against Climate Change explores how affected countries, especially those in the Global South, have increasingly turned to innovative index insurance instruments, as demonstrated by the creation of the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative Facility (PCRAFI Facility). Scherer scrutinizes the formation of this trend, exploring comparatively the goals, characteristics and histories of these tools, and argues that their attractiveness rests more on political than economic benefits and is, in fact, more supply than demand-driven. Making a significant contribution to current debates on the opportunities and limitations of what are sometimes described as indirect ‘climate risk insurance’, this book will be of great interest to political scientists with an interest in insurance instruments and climate-related disaster management politics as well as to practitioners working in the insurance, finance and the development sectors.

Insuring Against Climate Change: The Emergence of Regional Catastrophe Risk Pools 1st Edition is written by Nikolas Scherer and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Insuring Against Climate Change are 9781000033540, 1000033546 and the print ISBNs are 9780367342470, 0367342472. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 0367342472, 0429324642, 1032173572, 9780367342470, 9780429324642, 9781032173573.