[MCN] Adapting to climate change: To extent that politicians can't/won't lead, who will?

[Lance Olsen]

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Association - Published Online 28 August 2019

Excerpt

THE NEXUS OF CLIMATE DATA, INSURANCE, AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY
What: Fifty-seven active researchers from climate science, insurance and reinsurance, and climate change adaptation discussed the intersection of these three research communities and developed actionable research paths forward for the insurance industry to lead climate adaptation.

When: 8–9 November 2018

Where: Asheville, North Carolina

On the connection between climate change and insurance, Evan Mills wrote in Science that “insurance is a form of adaptive capacity” (Mills 2005 <https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0073.1#>). Well-functioning insurance markets price risk appropriately, and thereby encourage risk reduction. And so, a natural question to ask is this: to what extent can the insurance industry further promote climate adaptation? To address this question, researchers representing the climate science, insurance, and climate adaptation communities gathered at the Nexus of Climate Data, Insurance, and Adaptive Capacity, in November 2018. 

The goal was to look specifically at the intersection of these three research communities and identify new research paths for how insurance can lead to greater climate change adaptation.

PDF accessible here

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0073.1 <https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0073.1>


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"Ignorance of remote causes disposeth men to attribute all events to the causes immediate and instrumental: for these are all the causes they perceive."

Thomas Hobbes, 
Chapter XI. Of the Difference of Manners.
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And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. 
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“Here we discuss the capacity of conservation organizations to adapt to changing environmental conditions, focusing primarily on public agencies and nonprofits active in land protection and management in the US. After first reviewing how these organizations anticipate and detect impacts affecting target species and ecosystems, we then discuss whether they are sufficiently flexible to prepare and respond by reallocating funding, staff, or other resources. We raise new hypotheses about how the configuration of different organizations enables them to protect particular conservation targets and manage for particular biophysical changes that require coordinated management actions over different spatial and temporal scales. Finally, we provide a discussion resource to help conservation organizations assess their capacity to adapt.”

Paul R Armsworth et al. Are conservation organizations configured for effective adaptation to global change? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2015; doi:10.1890/130352

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