Finance & insurance
Links:
Association of British Insurers (ABI)
The ABI represents the UK’s insurance, investment and long-term savings industry. Its members, account for around 90% of premiums in the UK domestic market. ABI works with insurers on climate change issues, in particular flooding.
ClimateWise
ClimateWise is the collaborative insurance initiative through which members aim to work together to respond to the range of risks and opportunities of climate change. International membership covers Europe, North America and Southern Africa.
Carbon Disclosure Project
The Carbon Disclosure Project is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world.
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) is a forum for collaboration on climate change for European investors.
UNEP Finance Initiative
UNEP FI is a global partnership between UNEP and the financial sector. Over 190 institutions, including banks, insurers and fund managers, work with UNEP to understand the impacts of environmental and social considerations on financial performance.
Publications:
Carbon Disclosure Project
The Adaptation tipping point (pdf, 2.3 MB) explores why adaptation is and will become an increasingly important issue for businesses, investors and the financial markets. It focuses on the current understanding by major companies of the risks posed to their business by a changing climate and the adaptation measures undertaken to safeguard assets and operations.
Carbon Trust
For Climate change and shareholder value, the Carbon Trust worked with Cairneagle Associates to develop a methodology for analysing shareholder value at risk from climate change. (requires login)
City of London
The City of London’s updated Climate change adaptation strategy is a response to the now inevitable effects of climate change, which are caused by past emissions. (pdf, 1.8 MB)
CRU
Economic impacts of the hot summer and unusually warm year of 1995 provides an assessment of the economic costs to the UK of this warm year, across a broad range of sectors.
ERM
Estimates of the costs of climate change adaptation in the UK for some key sectors are included in a report published in 2000 by ERM.
London Climate Change Partnership
The aim of the London’s commercial building stock and climate change adaptation: Design, finance and legal implications (2009) report from the London Climate Change Partnership is to identify the major challenges and opportunities that a changing climate brings to the key sectors within the commercial property industry. (pdf, 2.4 MB)
UKCIP
In July 2005 UKCIP launched A changing climate for business, the UK’s first report to help business assess the impacts that climate change will have on their operations, and to begin the essential process of adapting to a changing climate. (pdf, 2.5 MB) This document was updated in June 2010.
World Bank
The World Bank Climate Change Portal provides readily accessible climate and climate-related data to policy makers and development practitioners. The site also includes a mapping visualisation tool (webGIS) to display key climate variables and climate-related data.
