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  • MCII at the UNISDR Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Geneva [read more]
  • International Microinsurance Conference hails parametric insurance products as 'ground breaking'  
  • MCII workshop: Climate Risk Insurance and Integrated Climate Risk Management. [Read more]
  • Find out what role insurance can play in managing climate change-related loss and damage [here]

  • MCII's activities at the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference 2012 in Doha 

  • MCII hosts a Workshop on Climate Risk Insurance in the Context of Adaptation and Loss & Damage in Barbados 

  • Dr. Koko Warner Executive Director, MCII on the role of insurance in the context of long-term adaptation finance at the second UNFCCC webinar on long-term finance. 

  • MCII and UNFCCC jointly conducted a literature review on approaches to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.

  • MCII to Participate at the Loss and Damage Work Programme at the UNFCCC Doha Climate Change Conference - November 2012 (COP 18). 

  • MCII and Germanwatch Participate at the Third Expert Group Meeting on Loss and Damage
    The third Expert Group Meeting of the UNFCCC's Work Programme held in Mexico City from July 23-25, 2012 brought together 60 experts from 20 countries and 30 organizations to share their experiences in handling loss and damage caused by climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read more

  • MicroEnsure Launches Awareness Raising Programme on Climate Risk Insurance Products
    In Jamaica,  MCII's project partner MicroEnsure launched the first of a series of workshops to raise awareness on climate risk insurance products. The St Thomas Co-Operative Credit Union is the first financial institution in the region to introduce their members to MCII's climate-based insurance product. Read more

  • MCII at the UNFCCC Expert Meeting on Assessing the Risk of Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change
    Parties requested the secretariat to organize, before its thirty-sixth session, an Expert Meeting to address issues related to the assessment of risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change. Read more

  • MCII Launches Programme on Climate Risk Adaptation & Insurance in the Caribbean.
    Read the press release under the projects section    .

More news [here]


Latest document

Insurance solutions in the context of climate change-related loss and damage

MCII's new policy brief outlines the role of insurance in the context of adaptation and loss and damage highlighting a set of recommendations to the Convention as a facilitator of short and long-term strategies to address loss and damage from climate change.