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Momentum for insurance; No panacea for tackling climate risk
2016-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: David Bresch has headed the Sustainability & Political Risk Management Unit at Swiss Re in Zurich since 2008, and he has lectured on climate adaptation and risk insurance as an emerging tool to provide a kind of last line of defense for property owners from catastrophic climate damage. As nearly 200 nations headed into the Paris talks that concluded in December with the first truly global climate deal, leaders from Swiss Re and nearly 80 other companies including Toshiba Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and...
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