Research article by Niall McLoughlin, Candice Howarth, Ganga Shreedhar on 9 Jan 2023
This review focuses on how insights from behavioral and attitudinal studies about heat risk responses can inform communication approaches.
Working paper by Nicholas Stern on 26 Oct 2021
15 years on from the Stern Review, here Nicholas Stern argues that the COVID-19 and climate crises, and the weaknesses that produced them, should be tackled together and that the response must be a new sustainable, resilient and inclusive approach to growth and development.
Working paper by Architesh Panda, Peter Lambert, Swenja Surminski on 8 Apr 2020
Analysing household data from 16 developing countries across Asia and Africa, this paper examines the landscape of access to and sources of financial services. The results shed new light on how insurance uptake could be increased through more tailored and targeted products and services that are designed to meet local needs and requirements in the face of climate and other shocks. read more »
Working paper by Simon Dietz, Falk Niehörster on 23 May 2019
The authors of this paper apply a newly developed insurance pricing model to two catastrophe model data sets relating to hurricane risk in two locations in the Atlantic basin, estimating ambiguity loads – the extra insurance premium due to ambiguity – and showing how these depend on the insurer’s attitude to ambiguity. read more »
Policy publication by Nick Robins, Vonda Brunsting, David Wood on 6 Dec 2018
This guide has also been translated into French and Spanish. A ‘just transition’ for workers and communities as the world’s economy responds to climate change was included as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. This guide sets out how investors can address the social dimension of climate change and pursue the goal […]
Working paper by Joanes Atela, Kate Elizabeth Gannon, Florence Crick on 16 Oct 2018
This research suggests that female-led MSMEs in Narok, Kenya, may face both additional exposure to climate risk compared with men, and additional barriers to adapting to that risk. read more »
Working paper by Lindsey Jones, Marco D’Errico on 7 Sep 2018
Little has been known to date about how objective and subjective modes of evaluating resilience compare. This paper addresses this gap, introducing a new method of subjective evaluation through household surveys in Uganda. The findings are relevant to evaluation toolkit design. read more »
Policy publication by Simon Dietz, Sini Matikainen, Bruno Rauis on 8 Dec 2017
This paper sets out responses to selected questions from the the UK government’s consultation on its proposal for a more streamlined and effective energy and carbon reporting framework. read more »
Research article by Swenja Surminski on 5 Oct 2017
Improving society’s ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from flooding requires integrated, anticipatory flood risk management (FRM). However, most countries still focus their efforts on responding to … read more »
Research article by Simon Dietz, Alex Bowen, Charlie Dixon, Philip Gradwell on 4 Apr 2016
Investors and financial regulators are increasingly aware of climate change risks. So far, most of the attention has fallen on whether controls on carbon emissions will strand the … read more »
