The Science of Climate Change: Implications for Risk Management

This thinkpiece is the first in a series of several articles on the subject of climate change to be published in 2009. This summarises a detailed report published on 23 February by the CII edited by shared Nobel Prize winner Andrew Dlugolecki, entitled Coping with Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for Insurers. In this article, CII policy & research manager Ana Catalano summarises a chapter of the report by Maureen Agnew and others that presents an overview of the science of climate change.[...]