Insurance only part of disaster resilience, says climate change panel

IRIN: In most developing countries, farmers risk losing their crops and livestock to droughts or floods, and the recent intensity of these climatic shocks has been record-setting. As the losses from these events mount, the developing world has been turning to the experiences of richer nations in transferring risk through mechanisms such as insurance. But experts – including the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its special report on managing the risks of extreme events...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/mar/06/insurance-disaster-resilience-climate-change
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