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People walking on a flooded street.
Loss and damage fund: two funding frameworks reimagining climate finance delivery
… In a groundbreaking moment at the 2023 United Nations climate change conference (COP28), the international community announced the … impacts.  Using metrics such as the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index can holistically assess vulnerability by encapsulating climate, … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP29) …
Insight, 12 February 2024
A group of people on a beach adding large lumps of clay to an embankment in the foreground.
Launch event: Anticipatory Social Protection Index for Resilience (ASPIRE)
… Climate change … Launch event: Anticipatory Social Protection Index for Resilience (ASPIRE) …
Event, 30 October 2023
Half of top ten countries most at risk from climate change already in or at high risk of entering debt distress
… Five of the top ten countries most at risk from climate change-related disasters are either already in debt distress or at high … by extreme weather events in 2019 in the latest global climate risk index, are both already unable to service their debts and so are … Half of top ten countries most at risk from climate change already in or at high risk of entering debt distress …
News, 20 April 2022
A woman carries jerrycans and tree men behind her wear masks and red vests with a red cross in the back
Applying the lessons of COVID-19 to the climate crisis
… the pandemic for the greatest long-term challenge of our age, the climate crisis. How has the pandemic interacted with the climate crisis? … COVID-19 established a precedent for rapid and deep behaviour change, much of which was bottom-up, not mandated by governments, and … finance may have unintended consequences: the Greenness of Stimulus Index shows that announced stimulus funding to date (US$3.7 trillion) …
Insight, 23 February 2022
A farmer in Tanzania shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Farmers in developing countries, and women farmers in particular, find it difficult to get multi-peril crop insurance (Photo: Anne Wangalachi, CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change
… As the risks of natural disasters due to climate change increase, insurance has been put forward as a potential way of … offer protection to these farmers a new form of insurance, known as index-based insurance, is gaining currency, particularly in the … Climate change … Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change …
Insight, 16 July 2015
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An Exploratory Analysis into Urban Index-based Microinsurance for Flood Risk in Nairobi: A community-based approach
… Climate change continues to amplify vulnerability in low-income communities … risk to the impacts of flooding. This study explores the scope for index insurance in Nairobi for flood risk at the micro-level. Drawing … An Exploratory Analysis into Urban Index-based Microinsurance for Flood Risk in Nairobi: A community-based …
Publication, 12 January 2018
Man standing next to a toppled tree in the middle of a road.
Private investors profiting from $200 billion of bond debt in climate-vulnerable developing countries
… countries, many of which are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, according to new analysis released by IIED ahead of next week’s … 2020, JP Morgan, which manages the benchmark sovereign bond market index, estimated total 'emerging market' bond debt of this kind at $1.29 … Private investors profiting from $200 billion of bond debt in climate-vulnerable developing countries …
News, 05 October 2023
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Delivering anticipatory social protection: country readiness assessment
Publication, 29 October 2023
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Climate risk assessment – Ethiopia
… in Sub-Saharan Africa, also one of the world’s poorest countries. Climate variability has increased in Ethiopia making the poor more vulnerable. Due to climate change as well as additional human induced factors, the areas affected … and desertification are expanding in the country. According to the Index for Risk Management, Ethiopia is ranked as high risk, with …
Publication, 20 April 2018
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Modelling demand for catastrophic flood index-based insurance in Da Nang City, Vietnam: Using choice experiments
… the interest of policy makers and private insurers in the context of climate change, has not achieved significant penetration and suffers low … performance due to a lack of well-designed insurance products. Index-based insurance is one measure to bridge that gap and to cope with … Modelling demand for catastrophic flood index-based insurance in Da Nang City, Vietnam: Using choice experiments …
Publication, 01 June 2014