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*Climate wars*
Climate change is no longer an intangible and rhetorical category: it
changes the economic and political map of the world. Leading insurance
companies refuse to insure entire regions, referring to climate risks, and
scientists argue that global warming will increase the number of wars.
*For more climate and energy related news please visit our website
rusecounion.ru*
The Geneva Association of Insurance Research predicts that some parts of
the UK and the U.S. state of Florida are under the risk of becoming
"uninsurable" in the very near future. According to the secretary general
of the association, John Fitzpatrick, this is just the beginning - the
number of such places in the world will continue to grow.
In recent years, insurance companies increasingly disagree with governments
that try to increase the protection against natural disasters. In the UK,
insurers and government officials reached an impasse in the search for a
compromise on extending the agreement of insurance protection for events of
households flooding. Insurers think that such obligations are now
inappropriate. Insurance companies require that the government introduced
the scheme of subsidizing insurance for households with high risks.
According to John Fitzpatrick, if the authorities take preventive measures,
the effects of many disasters such as the devastating floods in Thailand in
2011, whose damage is estimated at $ 43 billion, would be smaller.
According to experts, governments shall invest more in flood protection and
strengthen restrictions on building in hazardous areas to mitigate effects
of devastating natural disasters, such as Sandy hurricane that hit the U.S
east coast in October 2012 and cost the U.S. economy about $ 65 billion.
Russian insurers finally noticed the problem. In spring his year, Moscow
hosted the international conference "Climate Change: Risks and
Opportunities for Russia. The Challenge for the Insurance Industry." The
forum participants announced data from the German company Munich Re: the
number of extreme weather events over the past 30 years has increased
markedly. The number of storms, floods, heat waves, droughts and forest
fires has increased from 300 in 1980 to 900 in 2012. According to experts,
the total damage from natural and man-made disasters in the world was more
than $ 185 billion last year. However, despite the magnitude of losses from
the wave of hurricanes and natural disasters that swept the world last
year, the insurance benefits in the regions untouched by the disasters
around the world largely remained the same – it is not beneficial to notice
the discrepancy.
Scientists from Princeton University believe that one cannot ignore the
problems posed by climate change for long: the climate influences not only
the economic situation, but also the sources of tension - the climate
forces people to take up arms increasingly.
For their analysis, the scientists selected 60 studies on the relationship
between the climate and conflicts. They considered individual conflicts
(fights, murders, rapes), political clashes between groups (civil wars,
riots, ethnic conflicts and invasions), as well as cases of sudden and
significant changes of ruling regimes or disappearances of entire
civilizations. Having examined such a wealth of information, the scientists
have come to the conclusion - by 2050, the global warming will increase the
number of wars by 1.5 times.
Meanwhile, in-depth analysis of the problems predicted by scientists does
not reach even the professional communities in Russia. In spite of the very
high vulnerability of its "extreme" regions - the South, Polar region and
coasts - Russia on the whole still looks relatively good in terms of
climate – it does not sink in water like Tuvalu... However, the
consequences of the increasing number of accidents and disasters, the
invasion of climate refugees already excite our country. Unluckily, there
are no adaptation programs yet.
--
RSEU Climate Secretariat
www.rusecounion.ru
Address: Voznesenskij 36-4, St.Petersburg, 190068, Russia
Tel: +7 812 2410043
Tel.mob: +7 921 9117986, +7 9217444255
e-mail:rseu.c...@gmail.com
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Climate change is no longer an intangible and rhetorical category: it
changes the economic and political map of the world. Leading insurance
companies refuse to insure entire regions, referring to climate risks, and
scientists argue that global warming will increase the number of wars.
*For more climate and energy related news please visit our website
rusecounion.ru*
The Geneva Association of Insurance Research predicts that some parts of
the UK and the U.S. state of Florida are under the risk of becoming
"uninsurable" in the very near future. According to the secretary general
of the association, John Fitzpatrick, this is just the beginning - the
number of such places in the world will continue to grow.
In recent years, insurance companies increasingly disagree with governments
that try to increase the protection against natural disasters. In the UK,
insurers and government officials reached an impasse in the search for a
compromise on extending the agreement of insurance protection for events of
households flooding. Insurers think that such obligations are now
inappropriate. Insurance companies require that the government introduced
the scheme of subsidizing insurance for households with high risks.
According to John Fitzpatrick, if the authorities take preventive measures,
the effects of many disasters such as the devastating floods in Thailand in
2011, whose damage is estimated at $ 43 billion, would be smaller.
According to experts, governments shall invest more in flood protection and
strengthen restrictions on building in hazardous areas to mitigate effects
of devastating natural disasters, such as Sandy hurricane that hit the U.S
east coast in October 2012 and cost the U.S. economy about $ 65 billion.
Russian insurers finally noticed the problem. In spring his year, Moscow
hosted the international conference "Climate Change: Risks and
Opportunities for Russia. The Challenge for the Insurance Industry." The
forum participants announced data from the German company Munich Re: the
number of extreme weather events over the past 30 years has increased
markedly. The number of storms, floods, heat waves, droughts and forest
fires has increased from 300 in 1980 to 900 in 2012. According to experts,
the total damage from natural and man-made disasters in the world was more
than $ 185 billion last year. However, despite the magnitude of losses from
the wave of hurricanes and natural disasters that swept the world last
year, the insurance benefits in the regions untouched by the disasters
around the world largely remained the same – it is not beneficial to notice
the discrepancy.
Scientists from Princeton University believe that one cannot ignore the
problems posed by climate change for long: the climate influences not only
the economic situation, but also the sources of tension - the climate
forces people to take up arms increasingly.
For their analysis, the scientists selected 60 studies on the relationship
between the climate and conflicts. They considered individual conflicts
(fights, murders, rapes), political clashes between groups (civil wars,
riots, ethnic conflicts and invasions), as well as cases of sudden and
significant changes of ruling regimes or disappearances of entire
civilizations. Having examined such a wealth of information, the scientists
have come to the conclusion - by 2050, the global warming will increase the
number of wars by 1.5 times.
Meanwhile, in-depth analysis of the problems predicted by scientists does
not reach even the professional communities in Russia. In spite of the very
high vulnerability of its "extreme" regions - the South, Polar region and
coasts - Russia on the whole still looks relatively good in terms of
climate – it does not sink in water like Tuvalu... However, the
consequences of the increasing number of accidents and disasters, the
invasion of climate refugees already excite our country. Unluckily, there
are no adaptation programs yet.
--
RSEU Climate Secretariat
www.rusecounion.ru
Address: Voznesenskij 36-4, St.Petersburg, 190068, Russia
Tel: +7 812 2410043
Tel.mob: +7 921 9117986, +7 9217444255
e-mail:rseu.c...@gmail.com
From: "Climate Secretariat RSEU" <rseu.c...@gmail.com>
To: <rseu_cli...@googlegroups.com>; <can-...@listi.jpberlin.de>;
<enwl...@enwl.bellona.ru>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:30 PM
Subject: Climate wars
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