Adaptation is not enough: why insurers need climate change mitigation

Liam Phelan; Susan Harwood; Ann Henderson-Sellers; Ros Taplin

Adaptation is not enough: why insurers need climate change mitigation

Liam Phelan, Susan Harwood, Ann Henderson-Sellers, Ros Taplin

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Abstract

Current insurer responses to anthropogenic climate change are generally adaptive and weakly mitigative rather than strongly mitigative. In this chapter, we argue successful insurance system adaptation to anthropogenic climate change depends on returning the climate to a stable, familiar and relatively predictable state. Effective mitigation is therefore a necessary precondition for successful longer-term insurance system adaptation to climate change. To make this argument, we highlight important ways the Earth system, the global economy and insurance are all inter-connected.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	English through climate change
Editors	Walter Leal Filho, Evangelos Manolas
Place of Publication	Orestiada, Greece
Publisher	Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace
Pages	103-118
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9789609698047
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Phelan, L., Harwood, S., Henderson-Sellers, A., & Taplin, R. (2012). Adaptation is not enough: why insurers need climate change mitigation. In W. Leal Filho, & E. Manolas (Eds.), English through climate change (pp. 103-118). Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace. http://appliedmaths2.ee.duth.gr/Clim_Change.pdf

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Phelan, L, Harwood, S, Henderson-Sellers, A & Taplin, R 2012, Adaptation is not enough: why insurers need climate change mitigation. in W Leal Filho & E Manolas (eds), English through climate change. Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece, pp. 103-118. <http://appliedmaths2.ee.duth.gr/Clim_Change.pdf>

Adaptation is not enough: why insurers need climate change mitigation. / Phelan, Liam; Harwood, Susan; Henderson-Sellers, Ann et al.
English through climate change. ed. / Walter Leal Filho; Evangelos Manolas. Orestiada, Greece: Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, 2012. p. 103-118.

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Adaptation is not enough: why insurers need climate change mitigation

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