Weather Risk

A climate change risk assessment must consider at least three areas: the future pathway of global emissions; the direct risks arising from the climate’s response to those emissions; and the risks arising from the interaction of climate change with complex human systems. Each of these areas contains large uncertainties. From our assessment, we draw the following conclusions about the most significant risks.

La definición de sequía ha sido el objeto de numerosos estudios científicos, pero la diversidad de tipologías climáticas existentes sobre el planeta hace casi imposible utilizar el mismo umbral de déficit pluviométrico en dos lugares diferentes.

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La percepción del fenómeno climático de la sequía ha evolucionado en relación con la transformación económica y la modificación de los hábitos de vida y de consumo ocurridos en los últimos cincuenta años en la sociedad española.

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In October 2011, the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the Index Insurance Innovation Initiative (I4) organized a joint workshop hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The workshop was designed to identify and address issues surrounding index‐based insurance for smallholder farmers and the rural poor in the developing world. Emphasis was placed on identifying key areas of research and learning for the academic and policy community to pursue.

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wksp-report_ccafs_v04.pdf

In the past decade, 78,000 people, on average, have perished every year due to extreme weather conditions. In addition to decimating the human population, these extreme weather conditions have deeply affected agricultural production. Agriculture is integral for the sustenance of the human race. It is impacted by many external forces; but climate change is at the forefront  of the outlying factors that affect agriculture.  The changing climates of the world in the last decade have led to an influx of a variety of extreme weather events.

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climatechange4.pdf

Designing and rating insurance products requires both science and judgment. In developing and emerging economies, actuarial procedures must be robust and implementable, as well as offering a sufficient degree of transparency and flexibility so as to allow expert judgment to be incorporated. This paper outlines an approach to designing and rating a portfolio of index insurance products that uses both temporal and spatial aspects of the data to increase the efficiency of statistical estimates.

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WPS5986.pdf

This presentation was made at the "Using Satellites for Better Water and Environment Management?" training event in February 2012 which was jointly hosted by The World Bank and the US Government Agencies working in the remote sensing arena. 

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1-Gonzalez-Tetrault_WB2012.pdf

Most of the sectors on which development efforts focus are climate sensitive, including agriculture, health, energy, transport, and water resources. Incorporating climate knowledge into these efforts could greatly enhance their effectiveness, yet the  opportunities for doing this are largely being missed at present. Some believe this omission is undermining progress towards the  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)  (UNDP, 2002). Climate-related disasters, in  particular, are threatening development gains  in many African countries.

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Climate0and0Society0No1_en.pdf