<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-indent: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Bulletin of the American Meteorological Association - <span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Published Online 28 August 2019</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-indent: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class="">Excerpt</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">THE NEXUS OF CLIMATE DATA, INSURANCE, AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY</b></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-indent: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-indent: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">When: 8–9 November 2018</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-indent: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Where: Asheville, North Carolina</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-indent: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On the connection between climate change and insurance, Evan Mills wrote in Science that “insurance is a form of adaptive capacity” (</span><a href="https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0073.1#" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0073.1%23&source=gmail&ust=1567606697431000&usg=AFQjCNHMFuuzJv_n2TTBzZuEON8brXbiHQ" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);" class="">Mills 2005</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">). Well-functioning insurance markets price risk appropriately, and thereby encourage risk reduction. And so, a natural question to ask is this:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> to what extent can the insurance industry further promote climate adaptation? To address this question</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, researchers representing the climate science, insurance, and climate adaptation communities gathered at the Nexus of Climate Data, Insurance, and Adaptive Capacity, in November 2018. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-indent: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-indent: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">PDF accessible here</b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0073.1" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0073.1&source=gmail&ust=1567606697431000&usg=AFQjCNHCjuTRkSHJ_IKeKUzse3bvuC_Bng" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://journals.ametsoc.org/<wbr class="">doi/full/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-<wbr class="">0073.1</a></span></div><div class=""><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></div><div class="">
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Of the Difference of Manners.</div></h3></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><div class="r" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div class="s" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.57; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.bartleby.com/34/5/11.html" class="">https://www.bartleby.com/34/5/11.html</a></span></div><div class="s" style="font-size: 12px; max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.57; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">Excerpt : </b></div><div class="s" style="font-weight: normal; max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.57; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 32); font-family: Times;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">without the acquisition of more.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 32); font-family: Times; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> </span></div></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">--------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 24);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</span>Here we discuss the capacity of conservation organizations to adapt to changing environmental conditions, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">focusing primarily on public agencies and nonprofits </span>active in land protection and management in the US. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">After first reviewing how these organizations anticipate and detect impacts affecting target species and ecosystems, </span>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.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">”</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 24);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Paul R Armsworth et al. Are conservation organizations configured for effective adaptation to global change? <i class="">Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment</i> 2015; doi:10.1890/130352</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div><<<a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/99fb/7332339eba74185274972c8b31eb21ea116f.pdf" style="font-weight: normal;" class="">https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/99fb/7332339eba74185274972c8b31eb21ea116f.pdf</a>>></div><div style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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