ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Fair-Weather Finance: Historical Antecedents of Climate Risk Management
The insurance and reinsurance sectors, including institutions such as Lloyd’s of London, Swiss Re, and Munich Re, assert that they have the necessary instruments to address devastating weather events and climate catastrophe. In order to develop appropriate risk management instruments to protect against disruptive natural events, insurance companies have been conducting their own forms of research on weather and climate since the latter half of the eighteenth century. Over the past several decades, financial and climate risks have become increasingly entangled, especially so through instruments such as carbon trading, weather derivatives, and catastrophe bonds as well as myriad new forms of…
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